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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Impossible to use 'terminal' font in XEmacs/mule
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William M. Perry writes:
 > this just seems inherently silly.  This basically means you
 > cannot display fun little characters outside of ISO8859-1 in a
 > buffer without defining your own frigging character set!

Yes, I think you are correct.  But I don't think it's silly.  How
else can MULE determine whether a charset set can be displayed
with a given font?  If I want to display ASCII, I certainly don't
want the code to pick any of the versions of the terminal fonts
that display half the characters as T-bars.  I think the use of
the registry information is exactly right.


 > Do _any_ packages that do this work in Mule?  ANY?  Specifically, I'm
 > thinking of the latex package that shows some math stuff inline.

Probably not, if it hasn't been MULEized.  I'm sure that these
kinds of changes are the reason MULE was a v20-only release.

