Bootstrapping Problem; Displaying Latin-1 Characters

Tuesday, September 17, 2002

There was a report of a problem with bootstrapping on the emacs-devel mailing list yesterday. But I was able to build without problem the version around 10:00 (GMT-6:00) on September 15.

Here's some information for using latin-1 and other non-ASCII characters. The simplest way is to install the GNU intlfonts (see download link below). Then latin-1 characters should be displayed correctly by default. If you want to use Monaco instead, make sure you have that font installed in your system and set your font to fontset-mac. To find out how to do this, read about default-frame-alist in the on-line manual. The most flexible method of setting which fonts to use for characters in different codings is to define your own fontsets. Please read about the function create-fontset-from-fontset-spec in the manual and use fontset-mac as an example.