Re: No malayalam glyphs in language/mlm-util.el

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <20030220131831.A3E0.LEKTU@terra.es>, Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> writes:
>   (check_fontset_name): If NAME is nil, return the default fontset.

> Emacs doesn't load on windowing mode on Windows because term/w32-win.el
> contains:

>   (set-fontset-font t (make-char 'katakana-jisx0201) '("*" . "JISX0208-SJIS"))
>   (set-fontset-font t (make-char 'latin-jisx0201) '("*" . "JISX0208-SJIS"))
>   (set-fontset-font t (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208) '("*" . "JISX0208-SJIS"))
>   (set-fontset-font t (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208-1978) '("*" . "JISX0208-SJIS"))

> It's easy enough to change these t to nil, but, why the change?

> AFAICS, (set-fontset-font [t|nil]...) is not used anywhere on Emacs
> except by term/w32-win.el, and not surprisingly so, as the docs don't
> mention the posibility of NAME being other than a string...

Oops, sorry.  Long ago, for already forgotten reason, I
introduced the feature of using t for the default fontset,
but, it seems that the necessity disappeared before I
documented it.

I think nil is better than t for specifying the default
fontset.

I've just documented that NAME nil means the default fontset
in functions of fontset.c, and fixed term/w32-win.el.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org