Monaco in Native OS X GNU Emacs
My current preferred fixed-width font on the Mac is Monaco, but when I compiled Carbon GNU Emacs sometime ago Monaco wasn't rendered cleanly, Andale Mono was more or less OK, but not as nice as in a native editor either. In addition, I needed to create a fontset by hand to be able to enter accented characters.
I installed yesterday the last .dmg and this has dramatically improved. Monaco looks perfect now and there's no need to create the fontset, just configure the keyboard this way:
;; See C-h f set-language-environment RET for details.
(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
;; This is a PowerBook.
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'mac-roman)
;; Transform input from the keyboard into latin1.
(setq mac-keyboard-text-encoding kTextEncodingISOLatin1)
This definitely makes Emacs a better Mac citizen.
