Re: getting Mule, Unicode & X selection to play together

[Michael Livshin <usenet@cmm.kakpryg.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

>> not forgetting to explicitly map the "cyrillic-iso8859-5" encoding
>> to an iso8859-5 font in the fontset (no sir, Emacs *won't* grok it
>> by itself, how could it?)
>
> I'm surprised this is so, but if it is, it sounds like a bug, so please 
> report it (with a precise test case to reproduce) to 
> emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.  Thanks.

well, let me clarify.  Emacs *did* find an appropriately-encoded font,
the problem was that it took the iso8859-5 font from the "standard"
fontset and not from my fontset, even though there surely *it* a
matching font in my fontset (and it works great once I map
"cyrillic-iso8859-5" to it explicitly).

perhaps it's a kind of feature?

it would be nice to simply be able to tell Emacs to forget the
standard fontset altogether, or at least to completely ignore it.

> Btw, cyrillic-iso8859-5 is not an encoding, it's a character set.
> But that's nitpicking.

it's kind of subtle, so it's certainly worth pointing out.  thank you.

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