From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sand@blarg.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: ftfont ISO10646-1 font bug found (was Re: 23.0.60; Heavy display problems with new font backend) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:00:30 -0700 Message-ID: <18477.8958.959847.65162@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> References: <87hcdy6srx.fsf@baldur.tsdh.de> <4809F8AC.8000802@gnu.org> <87skxgbtlm.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <18445.25224.874018.531866@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> <874p9uw77k.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <18460.40869.171854.738262@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> <18462.48548.616317.968827@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> <18465.13215.537191.430206@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> <18467.55964.443458.171763@priss.frightenedpiglet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210917645 23746 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2008 06:00:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 06:00:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 08:01:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jwt0K-0000EA-QK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 08:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jwszb-0002ev-3G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwszX-0002el-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwszV-0002eR-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36713 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwszV-0002eO-Mw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: from v-static-143-234.avvanta.com ([206.124.143.234]:60011 helo=priss.frightenedpiglet.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwszU-0008F0-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 02:00:29 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 4361 invoked by uid 1000); 16 May 2008 06:00:31 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.9 under Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) X-URL: http://home.blarg.net/~sand X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97240 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa writes: > I think it's very ad-hoc to return only such fonts that has > that specific character in that case. Many non-English > fonts doesn't support it. Please take a look at my recent mail with the subject "Accumulated fontset definition tweaks for testing". I have come up with fixes for all my display problems in the Emacs Lisp libraries. The email lists the various problems I found in "fontset.el". > First of all, I have not that much considered about using > PCF fonts via ftfont driver because it can be used by xfont > driver if you put them in X's font-path. On the contrary, I > was even thinking about rejecting all PCF fonts in xft > backend. Does the xfont driver continue to work if a person specifies "xft" as the font backend? If it does, then I think that will be okay. If it doesn't then the ftfont driver should continue to support PCF fonts alongside TrueType fonts, for consistency with other applications. Derek -- Derek Upham sand@blarg.net