Emacs-w32 fails to display certain unicode characters that GNU Emacs is able to display

[Ken Brown]

On 6/23/2013 2:19 PM, Olli Piepponen wrote:
> Problem definition:
>
> Running both emacs-w32 (GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of
> 2013-03-11 on fiona) and GNU Emacs (GNU Emacs 24.2.1
> (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-29 on MARVIN) side by side, there
> are some unicode characters that display fine on GNU Emacs, but show
> up as squares on emacs-w32. See the screenshot for reference:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/HWv7TO0.png
>
> Using M-x describe-char gives us the following:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/QXXsRzj.png
>
> So the problem appears to be that when on GNU Emacs my font of choice
> Consolas fails to find a the right symbol to display, it is able to
> fall back to a Windows font called BatangChe. On emacs-w32 this does
> not happen, thus resulting in the squares.
>
> Is this a bug, and if not, how can I enable BatangChe on emacs-w32 as well?

First, the versions of emacs you're comparing are both GNU Emacs.  One 
is a Cygwin build using the native Windows GUI, and the other is the 
native Windows build.

I don't really know much about fonts, but a little poking around in the 
emacs manual suggests that what you need to do is set the "default 
fontset".  See the section on fontsets in the manual.

Ken


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