From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: hebrew: bold face odd when using the monospace font. Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:18:05 +0000 Message-ID: <87h9arxggi.fsf@mat.ucm.es> References: <8737mcqtz6.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1470943115 31390 195.159.176.226 (11 Aug 2016 19:18:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:18:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 11 21:18:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bXvUt-00080l-Eu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 21:18:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50227 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXvUp-000134-GE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXvUi-00012W-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:18:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXvUd-00017U-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49450 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXvUd-00016l-KP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bXvUY-0007OL-Go for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2016 21:18:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:z6RQ7s9pyIQ8EQyUDWdqJDwSUAY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206568 Archived-At: >>> "Yuri" == Yuri Khan writes: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> I usually use the following font >> >> (custom-set-faces >> '(default ((t (:family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :foundry "unknown" :slant >> normal :weight normal :height 143 :width normal)))))) >> >> Which gives also nice results for Hebrew. > I find that hard to believe. On my machine DejaVu Sans Mono does not > have Hebrew coverage. Pressing C-u C-x = on Hebrew text reveals that > Emacs substitutes DejaVu Sans, which does cover Hebrew and looks ok in > bold, but is not monospaced. Depending on your configuration, another > font may be substituted, possibly one that does not have a bold > weight. I am confused. What do you find hard to believe? My setting? The screenshots? Here is the result C-u C-x = on a hebrew mem sofit position: 1282 of 1284 (100%), restriction: <64-1285>, column: 3 character: ם‎ (displayed as ם‎) (codepoint 1501, #o2735, #x5dd) preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646)) code point in charset: 0x05DD script: hebrew syntax: w which means: word category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong) to input: type "M" with hebrew-phonetic-qwerty input method buffer code: #xD7 #x9D file code: #xD7 #x9D (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs) display: by this font (glyph code) xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x533) Character code properties: customize what to show name: HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM general-category: Lo (Letter, Other) decomposition: (1501) ('ם')