bug#3533: 23.0.94; Availability of unicode glyphs on Win XP

Jason Rumney <[email protected]> writes:

> Uwe Siart wrote:
>> On W2k almost all glyphs (aside from a couple of octal sequences) are
>> displayed. On XP, however, I get a lot of blank boxes there, just as
>> if all those glyphs were not included in the font.
>>   
>
> You likely have different fonts installed on the two machines. If you
> know any specific characters are supported by the font chosen but not
> shown in Emacs, please give detailed info about that character,
> including the info listed by C-u C-x = on both machines, and confirm
> that the font supports that character in the system Character Map
> applet.

Thanks for pointing me to "C-u C-x =". This showed me that on my W2k
machine the glyphs were taken from the font »Arial Unicode MS«. This
font was (for some reason which I do not know) available on my W2k
machine but not on the XP machine.

I did not expect that all those glyphs could be taken from more than one
font at a time so I compared only with respect to Courier New and thus
could not track down this problem by myself.

Please pardon me that I mistook this for a bug and submitted this
unnecessary report.

-- 
Uwe