From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Height of Unicode chars is not right Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:31:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83twqml5rr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1d60e77d-ab45-46e5-b0c7-39c653a9fda8@googlegroups.com> <87si664cs9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83vbb2l705.fsf@gnu.org> <87oagu4bus.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442943127 28852 80.91.229.3 (22 Sep 2015 17:32:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:32:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 19:31:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeRQ6-0001Kx-GL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:31:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41742 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeRQ5-0002ov-F3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:31:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34064) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeRPu-0002ni-1S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:31:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeRPq-0001R5-0a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:31:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:52584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeRPp-0001Qv-Pd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 13:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NV300F009LWCD00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:31:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NV300FTWA0S4880@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:31:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87oagu4bus.fsf@wanadoo.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107292 Archived-At: > From: =D3scar Fuentes > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:12:27 +0200 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> It is worth a try (Deja Vu Sans Mono covers a lot too), altough = as > >> mentioned on my previous message, Emacs sometimes uses another f= ont when > >> the default one encodes the Unicode char. On a discussion with a= n Emacs > >> hacker long time ago he mentioned that maybe such font does not = correcty > >> report the chars it covers. > > > > Emacs doesn't open fonts it considers for a given character, to a= void > > a long delay when many fonts are tried (opening a font is expensi= ve). > > Without opening a font, it is impossible to know with 100% certai= nty > > whether a font that declares coverage of some range of characters > > indeed includes a glyph for each character in that range. >=20 > On the case I mention above the problem migth consist on the font *= not* > declaring some ranges, then Emacs switching to another font for the > characters on those ranges, right? Yes.