Font question: how can I get emacs to render the unicode cuneiform characters that render in my browser?

It's a more annoying problem than I wish it was. You could try https://github.com/rolandwalker/unicode-fonts , which worked for increasing Unicode coverage for me, though I elected to not include it in my personal config due to the relatively lengthy setup.

Thanks! With the startup speed hit, it might be worth knowing "these unicode boxes are correct and the html export is correct..."

If it's just those codepoints you need, you can set fonts for specific ranges of Unicode codepoints. E.g., in [my Spacemacs config](https://github.com/chrisbouchard/dotfiles/blob/9bfbe4566520d9e5d8ca998901e120564982d5eb/home/.spacemacs#L606), I set a font for the free-use codepoints often used for Tengwar.

Try setting something like this in your init file: ``` (set-fontset-font t 'old-persian (font-spec :family "Noto Sans Old Persian")) ``` Does this work?

So… do you comment your .el files in Quenya, Telerin, or Sindarin?

I always comment _Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!_ before a dark web of elisp.

[~~Partial success!~~](https://imgur.com/gS81Szs) ~~Now I just need to mix this answer with the partial \`(set-fontset-font)\` suggestion above to only render this for the relevant characters.~~ I need to work on reading comprehension. For whatever reason I don't have it quite yet with that solution, unfortunately, [as I comment here](https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/vr87tv/font_question_how_can_i_get_emacs_to_render_the/ieutf0d/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) EDIT 3: It's a Doom emacs problem. Doom isn't letting me do the set-fontset-font 😭. The solution is just use doom's \`unicode\` package... oh man...

~~I am banging my head against a metaphorical wall right now trying to get it to work. \`describe-char\` tells me the character script is \`old-persian\`:~~ ~~position: 10274 of 157466 (7%), column: 16character: 𐏃 (displayed as 𐏃) (codepoint 66499, #o201703, #x103c3)charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))code point in charset: 0x103C3script: old-persiansyntax: w which means: wordcategory: .:Base, L:Strong L2Rto input: type "C-x 8 RET 103c3" or "C-x 8 RET OLD PERSIAN SIGN HA"buffer code: #xF0 #x90 #x8F #x83file code: #xF0 #x90 #x8F #x83 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)display:~~ **~~no font available~~**~~so I've set it up~~ [~~a la this website~~](https://gist.github.com/alanthird/7152752d384325a83677f4a90e1e1a05#file-noto-fonts-el-L66) ~~with variations on~~ ~~\`(set-fontset-font t 'old-persian "Noto Sans Old Persian Regular")\`~~ ~~\`(set-fontset-font t 'old-persian "Noto Sans Old Persian")\`~~ ~~and similar to your suggestion~~ ~~(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" '(#x103c3 . #x103c4) "Noto Sans Old Persian Regular")Like a lot of things, it's a surprisingly hard problem that will end up having an easy solution, but I'm at a loss at the moment.~~ ​ ​ EDIT It's a Doom emacs problem. Doom isn't letting me do the set-fontset-font 😭. The solution is just use doom's \`unicode\` package... oh man...

Solutions below are great (thank everyone who posted!) ​ If you're using Doom emacs, you need to enable the \`unicode\` module in the init.el file. Then everything magically works. Doom doesn't let you use \`set-fontset-font\` for some reason. That was a colossal waste of time :-(

Doom does not stop you from doing anything. It just may fiddle with things in a way that does not allow you to do it the traditional way. I am not sure of the problem here but you can look into what the module does to gain some insight and so forth. In any case I am glad you came to a solution! Next time you may get some better help (read doom oriented help) on [the discourse forum](https://discourse.doomemacs.org)