Re: Pasting from X clipboard sometimes uses different font

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Reuben Thomas wrote:

> For example, with U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS. If I type one in an Emacs 
> buffer, I get the character from my normal font:
>
> *font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-*-*
>
> whereas if I have one on the X clipboard and paste it (e.g. button-2), then I 
> get a wider character, but if I go into hexl-mode I can see it's the same 
> character code, though annoyingly it's not on the baseline (so there's also a 
> bug in whatever font is being used, but I'm not sure which font is being 
> used).

I looked at that code point in all my fonts, and found the exact character 
diplayed in

-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-ko-18-120-100-100-c-180-iso10646-1

Is there any reason that font might have been used when I was pasting from 
the clipboard rather than the default face, mentioned above?

In my custom.el I have:

  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground "white" 
:inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil 
:slant normal :weight normal :height 120 :width semi-condensed :family 
"misc-fixed"))))

i.e. the same font as listed from my .Xresources file, in Emacs notation.

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