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> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:27:59 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:54:09 -0400
> > 
> > In my ~/.emacs (version 27.1-1.1.x86_64, I believe) I have a function
> > containing
> > 
> > set-default-font "-*-*-regular-r-*-*-*-180-*-75-*-*-iso8859-1")
> 
> This setting is redundant, because Emacs does that by default.  I
> suggest that you simply delete it, you shouldn't see any difference.

Or, if you did that to get a larger font, use set-face-attribute
instead to request a larger font without specifying it in XLFD format
(which requires too much information you don't want to provide).