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From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: miles@gnu.org, kasahara@nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: X fonts selection weirdness
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:38:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KCG1j-0006nu-8R@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KC1sj-0008OB-IM@etlken.m17n.org> (message from Kenichi Handa on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:32:05 +0900)

    > If the user choose a default font capable of displaying one of those
    > charsets, it seems like he would _want_ the default font to be used!

    >     Not for non-Latin scripts, especially CJK and those require
    >     CTL (Complex Text Layout).  Usually the default font, even
    >     if it claims that it has the specific character, the design
    >     is not good or doesn't contain proper OTF tables.

    > How about putting that explanation in the doc string?

    Docstring of which function/variable?

Whichever ones you use to choose a different default font.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-27 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-24  3:42 X fonts selection weirdness Yoshiaki Kasahara
2008-06-24  4:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-24  6:20   ` Yoshiaki Kasahara
2008-06-24  4:53 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-24  5:57   ` Yoshiaki Kasahara
2008-06-24  7:02     ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-24  9:08       ` Yoshiaki Kasahara
2008-06-25  7:47         ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-25  7:55           ` Miles Bader
2008-06-25  8:05             ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-25 11:31             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-25 13:45               ` Miles Bader
2008-06-25 14:04                 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-26 11:40                 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-26 21:20               ` Richard M Stallman
2008-06-27  0:32                 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-27 15:38                   ` Richard M Stallman [this message]
2008-06-25  8:15           ` David Kastrup
2008-07-09  1:42             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-15  3:34               ` Yoshiaki Kasahara
2008-06-26  7:39           ` Yoshiaki Kasahara
2008-06-24 12:42       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-24 15:10         ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-24 18:46           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-25  0:36             ` Kenichi Handa

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