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Subject: Re: emacs fonts
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:36:49 +0100
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Would it be possible for emacs to fully support mule functionality, like
(Chinese) fonts?


"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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>
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, deckerben wrote:
>
> > Has anyone successfully built gnu emacs with djgpp and xlib so that it
> > supports graphic extensions, such as fonts?
>
> For this to work, you'd first need a DJGPP port of Xlib.  IIRC, no such
> port exists for DJGPP v2.  There was an old port for DJGPP 1.x, and Emacs
> used to support that port (you can still find the traces of that support
> in config.bat and other DJGPP configury stuff in the Emacs distribution).
> But no one ported Xlib to DJGPP v2, so by now I'd expect that support to
> suffer from a severe bit-rot.
>
> However, if someone comes up with a ported Xlib, I promise to resurrect
> its support in the current Emacs sources.  As a starting point, a pointer
> to the old Xlib port is in the DJGPP FAQ, section 22.4.