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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 27.1 forces a very ugly font for Cyrillic characters and I can't override it.
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:13:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pn03hyse.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8da52f31-721b-28c3-a6ec-11d9e82e9cfd@gmail.com> (message from Nikolay Kudryavtsev on Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:05:13 +0300)

> From: Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:05:13 +0300
> 
> Being rather operative with the new releases, I've finally decided to 
> upgrade to 27.1 from 26.2. And here's what I ran into:
> 
> In my init I have:
> 
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Liberation Mono-10"))
> 
> This forces Liberation Mono font for all frames. Or would do so before 
> 27.1. But now all of the Cyrillic characters get displayed in MS Gothic, 
> which is a very ugly font.

You are on Windows 10, right?

What does the below produce?

  M-: (getenv "LANG") RET

> I've tried to test an assumption that maybe the font-backend is 
> responsible for font selection and now the harfbuzz is the default for 
> me. But forcing uniscribe again didn't help.

No, the fact that we use HarfBuzz now is not related to this, I think.
Font selection is largely independent of the font backend.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-13 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-13 12:05 Emacs 27.1 forces a very ugly font for Cyrillic characters and I can't override it Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-03-13 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-03-13 16:02   ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-03-13 16:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-13 16:44       ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-03-13 16:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-13 17:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <b027f754-194e-5798-13d9-6d9f01b69777@gmail.com>
2021-03-13 18:39               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-26 13:34                 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-03-26 14:23                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-26 15:51                     ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-03-26 15:57                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-26 16:05                         ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
2021-03-26 13:50                 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev

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