empty charset registry?

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an tri? l? d?ag de m? na Samhain, scr?obh Ilya N. Golubev: 

 > Before all, I do not like inquiring like that.  It is too much like
 > demanding to prove that my system(s) conform to some undefined
 > standard, with implication that everybody with system like that is
 > screwed.

If I?m implementing something, it is relevant to me what real-world
situations are affected by it. And so it should be. 

 > Moreover, one of my X servers exhibiting the "inconvenient" behavior
 > may be unavailable right now, so I may be unable to give detailed
 > answers.  This only means that someone (not necessarily me) will hit
 > the same restriction in xemacs with some server like that couple of
 > months later. 

I?ve nothing against giving a warning and saying ?please use the full XLFD
for of the name of the font you want. In the unlikely event that the font
you want to use doesn?t have a full XLFD available, please create one using
a directory and fonts.alias, or use the non-Mule version of XEmacs, where
the point of the version is that we don?t care what character a given number
is, with the unfair exception of most of ASCII.?

?I want to use a font name that isn?t a full XLFD? has a simple answer;
?find its XLFD and use that.? Text font names without XLFDs are rare, and
intentionally so.

 > [...]
 >
 > > Which fonts do you want to use?
 > 
 > All that are available to clients of given x server. 

No, you don?t. Running XEmacs on X11 is not useful after a successful call to

(set-face-font 'default "cursor") 

for example. Which fonts do you want to use? 

 > [...]
 >
 > > When you run xfd -fn font-specification , does it list a full XLFD with
 > > dashes at the top of the window? 
 > 
 > Not necessarily.  For `850pc8x14' font name it outputs just the same
 > string.  From font directory lookups it also appears that in that
 > particular system there just no other name for that font, let alone
 > xlfd format one.

When you do 

mkdir /tmp/ilya && echo '-ilya-850pc8x14-medium-r-normal--14-120--75-75-C-80-iso8859-1 850pc8x14? > /tmp/ilya/fonts.alias && xset fp+ /tmp/ilya 

can you then select the font with xfd in full dashed form? 

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