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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@etlken.etl.go.jp>
To: mule@etl.go.jp
Cc: mule@etl.go.jp, morioka@jaist.ac.jp, xemacs-beta@xemacs.org,
        Teruhiko.Kurosaka@Japan.Sun.COM, brewin@Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <199612011038.CAA18639@xemacs.eng.sun.com> (message from Martin
	Buchholz on Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:38:00 -0800)
Subject: Re: mule API of Emacs and XEmacs (Re: caesar-region)

   Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 02:38:00 -0800
   From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
   ...
   Then the default font for the emacs text area is set to something like:
   -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

   The fonts matching this are:

   (mrb@xemacs) ~ $ xlsfonts -fn '-dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*'
   -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s sans-12-120-72-72-m-70-iso8859-1
   -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s-14-120-75-75-m-120-jisx0208.1983-0
   -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s-14-120-75-75-m-60-jisx0201.1976-0

   Notice how the jisx0208 font is exactly twice as wide as the the
   jisx0201 font, but this is not true for the iso8859-1 font.

   It will be tough to find an appropriate iso8859-1 font exactly half
   the width of the jisx0208 font above.  Even if we do, we will have to
   make a system-specific choice of font.  On Solaris, at least, the best
   result for the user seems to be obtained from using the jisx0201 font
   to display ASCII characters, assuming that one cares about preserving
   the 2-1 display ratio.  Note that this makes column-dependent
   functions work better visually as well, as long as Emacs estimates
   Kanji as being twice the width of ASCII, as is traditional.

I'm sorry I can't catch your point.
It is not a right way to display ASCII character with jisx0201 font.
If -dt-interface user-medium-r-normal-s*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* doesn't match
proper fonts used by Emacs, it should be change at least for Emacs, or
names of proper fonts should have aliases to match it, or a user
should give up using Emacs with that size of fonts.

   I agree that a typing backslash should insert backslash, but this is
   hard to reconcile with using a jisx0201 font to display ASCII.

So, "using a jisx0201 font to display ASCII" is wrong.

---
Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp

