From: Michael Spartana Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 13:03:40 -0500 . . . this fixes the error message in that it doesn't show: export LC_ALL=C [can be added to bash profile] but the fonts are still very small.........emacs seems unaffected. The only reason I found this is because when I was changing my fstab from the rescue terminal, emacs crashed. Sorry this does seem like a little thing. mike I'm not sure how well xemacs (or even emacs) is supported under openSUSE. Myself, I build emacs from Git (but then I'm a contributor to the project, with a pile of customizations to support). If xemacs is your customary editor and you have trouble with it in future (and don't have a pile of xemacs-specific customizations of your own), you might consider using emacs instead. -- Bob Rogers http://www.rgrjr.com/

From: Michael Spartana Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 20:45:23 -0500 Thanks Bob, I've used emacs for many years. I think I changed to xemacs because I thought it was for the graphical desktop. You appear to be right as emacs works well with the desktop. I still don't know why emacs was crashing in the rescue terminal, oh well, as long as one of them works. This one I got from the opensuse repositories figuring that was the best place to look. Thanks again, mike Emacs caught up to XEmacs in terms of GUIs a long time ago -- and then surpassed it. In particular, Emacs now does Unicode better [1], including bidirectional scripts, which probably means it has better font support. For grins, you could try "C-h h" (the "hello" page) in each implementation to see how many languages are demonstrated. (I notice I have fewer Asian fonts installed by default in 15.4 than in 15.3, but I do have the CJK fonts, and Hebrew and Arabic. For fun, try moving the cursor a character at a time through the Hebrew and Arabic lines.) -- Bob [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEmacs