From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggest installing more fonts? Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:30:40 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2k6v378.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2317"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 13:32:25 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kTNyD-0000Ut-SA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:32:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35654 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTNyC-0003DX-VR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:32:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTNx0-0002mQ-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:64164) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTNwt-0000QG-Ty; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 07:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 09GBUhXJ017114 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:30:43 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 09GBV6Cc000180; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:31:06 GMT In-Reply-To: <83y2k6v378.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/16 07:30:46 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257797 Archived-At: >> But could Emacs be more helpful here? That is, could we somehow, >> unobtrusively, tell the users this when Emacs is trying to display a >> character that it has no fonts for? > > That box with the hex code is our way of telling the users that. What > else can be better, given that there could be more than one such > character? > A suggestion: would it not be better to include a version of GNU Unifont in Emacs? Instead of a box with a hex code, users would see what the character is. It is bitmapped, so users would at the same time see that the character is missing in their installed fonts.