From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.60; wrong glyph widths of some Unicode codepoints Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:24 +0100 Message-ID: <4836BDCC.7090705@gnu.org> References: <8763t6r1tp.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <87zlqhv71h.fsf@physik.rwth-aachen.de> <87zlqhiej5.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211547158 17432 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2008 12:52:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:52:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Hansen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 14:53:15 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 1JzWlk-000165-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 14:53:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50087 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzWkz-00080X-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 08:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzWkt-0007z1-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 08:52:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzWkr-0007yO-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 08:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40667 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzWkr-0007yK-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 08:52:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]:35313) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JzWkr-0002or-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 08:52:17 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 85148414/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAAxbNkhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBVa0P X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,529,1204502400"; d="scan'208";a="85148414" X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 23 May 2008 13:51:36 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7694015B9; Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:31 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:97586 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa wrote: > Ah! But, then why does fontconfig put higher priority to > bistream fonts? My best guess would be because they have good enough coverage for most US/European users, and less memory is used due to the narrower coverage. Either that or the GNU/Linux distributors are just being conservative with their default configurations and prefering the older original font rather than its still under development offshoot.