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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ralf Jung <post@ralfj.de>
Cc: 26605@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26605: 25.1; emacs picks unsuitable fallback fonts for monospace default font
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:25:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wpacp7n6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70ade677-f0e9-eb1c-ddbd-00b02f000926@ralfj.de> (message from Ralf Jung on Sat, 22 Apr 2017 18:24:59 +0200)

> Cc: 26605@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Ralf Jung <post@ralfj.de>
> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 18:24:59 +0200
> 
> >> Notice that, for example, → is supported by both Fira Mono and DejaVu
> >> Mono.  In these cases, the editor should use the preferred font, which
> >> is Fira Mono in my case.
> > 
> > Isn't that what happens?  It does here.
> 
> Yes, sorry if that was unclear.  With the default setup, → is picking
> the font I expected it to pick.
> I mentioned this just because when changing the configuration to use
> DejaVu Mono as a fallback font, it often happened to me that then emacs
> also used DejaVu Mono for →.

Shouldn't happen in Emacs 25, AFAIK.  We specifically made a change in
that version to stick to the default font for symbols and punctuation
characters, as long as the default font supports them.  Maybe your
experience comes from older versions?





  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-22 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-22 13:06 bug#26605: 25.1; emacs picks unsuitable fallback fonts for monospace default font Ralf Jung
2017-04-22 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-22 16:24   ` Ralf Jung
2017-04-22 19:25     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-04-22 19:26       ` Ralf Jung
2019-11-17  7:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-17 15:50   ` Eli Zaretskii

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