Font display errors in recent emacs

Font display errors in recent emacs

[Vin Shelton]

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Dear Emacs Developers,

In an emacs built from yesterday's (2013-11-12) sources, I'm seeing
the following problem:

emacs -q

If I then evaluate the following form:

  (set-face-font 'default "-*-dejavu sans
mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1")

and start gnus:

  M-x gnus

then results in characters written as hex codes with boxes drawn
around them; see the attached file.

This is on a Fedora 19 system.  The dejavu sans mono font is installed:

xlsfonts -fn "-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1"
  ==> -misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1

I have a build of emacs from 2013-10-15 that does not exhibit this behavior.

Regards,
  Vin Shelton

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Re: Font display errors in recent emacs

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 11/13/2013 05:20 PM, Vin Shelton wrote:

> If I then evaluate the following form:
>
>    (set-face-font 'default "-*-dejavu sans
> mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1")

BTW, what package this font comes from? I have quite a lot of fonts:

$ xlsfonts | wc -l ==> 3829

but:

$ xlsfonts -fn "-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1"
xlsfonts: pattern "-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1" unmatched

Dmitry

Re: Font display errors in recent emacs

[Vin Shelton]

Dmitry et al,


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> BTW, what package this font comes from? I have quite a lot of fonts:
>
> $ xlsfonts | wc -l ==> 3829
>
> but:
>
> $ xlsfonts -fn "-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1"
> xlsfonts: pattern "-*-dejavu sans
> mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1" unmatched

I don't know, but

xlsfonts -fn "-*-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1"
    -misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--12-87-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1

And here's the list of dejavu sans fonts and their associated files.
Perhaps that will help.

BTW, since I have upgraded my system to Fedora 20 Beta, the problem
has gone away.

for p in $(rpm -qa | grep dejavu.*sans | sort); do
  echo "\n$p"
  rpm -q --list $p
done

dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/58-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/58-dejavu-lgc-sans.conf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans-ExtraLight.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansCondensed-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansCondensed.ttf

dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/58-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/58-dejavu-lgc-sans-mono.conf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansMono-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansMono-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuLGCSansMono.ttf

dejavu-sans-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans.conf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-ExtraLight.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf

dejavu-sans-mono-fonts-2.34-1.fc20.noarch
/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf


  - Vin