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 15:51:12 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2k6v378.fsf@gnu.org> <87a6wm5mmv.fsf@gnus.org> <83k0vququ7.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32208"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 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 17:53:48 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 1kTS3A-0008H5-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52244 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTS39-0005so-9M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:53:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTS0r-0004aY-CW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:51:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:58305) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTS0n-0004So-IJ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:51:24 -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 09GFpE0d012356 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:51:14 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 09GFpEJv003839; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:51:14 GMT In-Reply-To: <83k0vququ7.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:257826 Archived-At: >> Perhaps there is another font that covers (at least) the complete BMP >> that could be included in Emacs? > > The BMP is not enough these days. E.g., many Emoji is outside of it, as > are many newly introduced scripts. > > Unifont supports much more than the BMP. > Yes, I know: I wrote "at least" ;-) > > It is unusual for a single font to support many different scripts, > certainly not the amount that Unifont supports. > Hence the idea of Unifont + help-echo warning. The users see something they can decypher, and are warned that they need to do something to see it better.