To use unicode-fonts, place the unicode-fonts.el file somewhere Emacs can find it, and add the following to your ~/.emacs file: ( require ' unicode-fonts)
This library configures Emacs in a Unicode-friendly way by providing mappings from each Unicode block -to-> a font with good coverageĪnd makes the settings available via the customization interface. Unicode provides a way to organize font mappings: it divides character ranges into logical groups called “blocks”. As the manual warns, the choice of font actually displayed for a non-ASCII character is “somewhat random”.
Furthermore, the default setup does not always pick the most legible fonts. However, font mappings via fontsets are a bit difficult to configure. Furthermore, Emacs does this out of the box. Testing C-h h M-x view-hello-file M-x list-charset-chars RET unicode-bmp RET search for eg 210x M-x list-charset-chars RET unicode-smp RET if your backend supports astral chars M-x unicode-fonts-debug-insert-block RET Mathematical_Operators RET OverviewĮmacs maintains font mappings on a per-glyph basis, meaning that multiple fonts are used at the same time (transparently) to display any character for which you have a font.
A library to configure Unicode fonts for Emacs.
