Hi Jason, "Jason F. McBrayer" wrote: >> I still will give it a try for a couple of days. But, as of now, nothing >> beats Consolas yet... > > I /think/ that in X, emacs will select the closest font it can find to > in order to get the characters it needs. However, in Windows, it will > only use the default font (or whatever is explicitly specified for the > face), even if that font is missing characters. The only workaround > I've found for buffers that need a lot of Unicode characters is to use > DejaVu Sans Mono. Consolas is very nice, but its Unicode coverage is > not good.
That could explain why I was sure that I did get a bit more representable characters when using Consolas under Ubuntu: they came from another font. Thanks for the explanation... Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
