bug#3319: 23.0.93; Default font

["Francis Wright" <f.j.wright@qmul.ac.uk>]

> From: Stefan Monnier [mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday 20 May 2009 3:17 am
> To: Kenichi Handa
> Cc: jasonr@gnu.org; 3319@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com;
> F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: bug#3319: 23.0.93; Default font
> 
> >> Breaking backward compatibility might be OK, but I still wonder: how
> >> come we ended up with "Sanvito Pro Subhead" from a spec of
> >> a non-existing "outline-lucida sans typewriter"?
> 
> > When there's no font of the specified family, Emacs tries to
> > find a font without specifing family.   In that case, which
> > family is selected is just arbitrary.
> 
> Shouldn't we fallback on the default font families
> (Sans/Courier/...) instead?

I think that would be much better. A known useable font would be better than
something arbitrary, which could presumably be some kind of symbol font.

Incidentally, Emacs 22 doesn't offer me Sanvito or the Adobe fonts, whereas
Emacs 23 does.