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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Miles Bader'" <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 2949@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2949: 23.0.92; font-info incompatible across Emacs versions
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:43:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000601c9bacd$14ef5120$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws9rqeza.fsf@catnip.gol.com>

> > In Emacs 20, `font-info' returns an array like this: ...
> > In Emacs 22 and later, it returns an array like this: ...
> > This breaks any code that tries to use the result with 
> > different Emacs versions.
> 
> So.... what exactly do you want to happen?
> 
> The two formats look easy enough to distinguish.  Since the change
> occurred in 22, it's been widely released, so obviously 3rd-party code
> simply has to be prepared to deal with it (if they care about 21 and
> older versions), and there's little point in changing it back now.

I guess nothing can be done.

But I do wonder why CHARSET was dropped from both `font-info' and
`describe-font'. There seems to be nothing about this in NEWS (e.g. for Emacs
22). Is the character set no longer meaningful? useful? appropriate?
discoverable?







  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-11 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5062.1239379440.31690.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-11 17:26 ` bug#2949: 23.0.92; font-info incompatible across Emacs versions Miles Bader
2009-04-11 17:43   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-04-14 12:41     ` Kenichi Handa
2009-04-14 14:32       ` Drew Adams
2009-04-12  2:37   ` Jason Rumney
2009-04-10 15:44 Drew Adams

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