From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: poor font choice Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:22 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210831558 14535 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2008 06:05:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 06:05:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 15 08:06:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JwWbc-0007SX-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 08:06:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwWat-0000VT-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwWap-0000VD-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JwWan-0000UR-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35327 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JwWan-0000UO-1o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from 76-10-180-207.dsl.teksavvy.com ([76.10.180.207]:38117 helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwWam-0006ar-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8D3D0B40CB; Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:22 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:97183 Archived-At: Here is a problem that existed before with the "old" font-backend, but still exists (tho the specific poor font chosen happens to be different): I have some mostly ascii text with one ellipsis char. The ascii text is shown in -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 while the ellipsis (#x2026) uses -MUTT-ClearlyU-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 The fact is the misc-fixed font also provides the ellipsis char, so there's no reason to resort to something else like ClearlyU. The problem is probably due to the fact that the font used for the ascii text is ...-iso8859-1 rather than ...-iso10646-1, but that's no excuse for preferring -MUTT-ClearlyU-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 over -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 Stefan