My Emacs Font Setting

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono plus Microsoft YaHei

1. Setting in ~/.Xdefaults
   Emacs.Fontset-0:-*-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-bitstream
   Emacs.font:fontset-bitstream
2. Load the setting
   xrdb ~/.Xdefaults
3. Setting in ~/.emacs
   (set-fontset-font
    "fontset-default" nil
    "-*-microsoft yahei-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1" nil 'prepend)
   (set-fontset-font
    "fontset-bitstream" 'kana
    "-*-microsoft yahei-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1" nil 'prepend)
   (set-fontset-font
    "fontset-bitstream" 'han
    "-*-microsoft yahei-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1" nil 'prepend)
   (set-fontset-font
    "fontset-bitstream" 'cjk-misc
    "-*-microsoft yahei-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1" nil 'prepend)

Several commands which may be helpful

1. sudo mkfontscale ; sudo mkfontdir; sudo fc-cache -fv
2. (Emacs) M-x describle-char 
   check which char is using which font
3. xlsfonts
   list X server fonts, for example, xlsfonts | grep bitstream

Reference

Microsoft YaHei Install: http://www.cukesoft.cn/blog/read.php?5

Bitstream Vera Mono:   http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=bitstream_vera_mono

Sans and Sans Serif: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif