How do I get Emacs to display characters other than ISO-8859-1 (West European)?
If you are content with the size and style of font that Emacs uses at startup (Courier New 10), you could try using `fontset-standard’, which will give you most languages that you have fonts for and Emacs supports. To use `fontset-standard’ for all frames, place the following in your startup file: (setq default-frame-alist (append ‘((font . “fontset-startup”)) default-frame-alist)) or, to change for the current frame only: (set-frame-font “fontset-startup”) To have more control over which fonts are used in a fontset, you need to specify the fontset manually. If only one character set is needed, the easiest way to do this is to use `create-fontset-from-ascii-font’ whereever you define a font. (setq default-frame-alist (append ‘((font . (create-fontset-from-ascii-font “-*-Andale Mono-normal-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-2”))) default-frame-alist)) If you require support for a number of languages, you should use `create-fontset-from-fontset-spec’. Note that installing more than one of the Ea
