emacs-writer VS unicode-fonts

I meant to do that—thanks for the reminder. I don't particularly like the default welcome screen—I think I might eventually make something like what I've got with Amethyst.

Here's a setup I made for my non-technical wife: https://github.com/ashton314/amethyst

Inspired in pat by this article, I put together a quasi-Emacs distribution for my wife who is a writer. It turns on several of the suggestions in this article by default, such as CUA mode, etc.

https://github.com/ashton314/amethyst

Maybe the amethyst starter kit might be helpful? Also the system crafters videos and Mike Zamansky's videos

See my code on GitHub.

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.

I've found a solution from here: install unicode-fonts and run unicode-fonts-setup on startup.

Regarding your long lines issue - from your description it sounds instead like an unicode issue which I also ran into a while back.

What happens is that your main programming font does not have the unicode characters, so Emacs falls back to searching all your fonts for each character it can't find, which is slow if it has to search through many different fonts.

The solution is to ensure you have symbol fonts installed - see the list of fonts here: https://github.com/rolandwalker/unicode-fonts

When I open the same page in the terminal there are no extra characters displayed. I installed and configured unicode-fonts but did not help.

Try to go through the README of unicode-fonts (install the fonts recommended). And put this in your configuration: emacs-lisp (use-package unicode-fonts :ensure t :config (unicode-fonts-setup)) Font issues are usually not fixable in Emacs. It's an external problem.