From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggest installing more fonts? Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:13:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83blh2ugqb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32285"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 21:19:42 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kTVGQ-0008Jx-3A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:19:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33660 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTVGP-0002Zm-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTVAS-0006nk-AZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:13:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTVAM-00064x-89; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3238 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kTVAE-0005pM-Ee; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:13:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:48:00 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257855 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:48:00 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > - Does the problem only affect Emacs and not other applications? > If so why? AFAIK, "most other applications", at least those I could investigate, come with fixed lists of fonts to use for each script. These lists are maintained for each OS and are adjusted as the OS version and the fonts change. This method has its advantages and also its disadvantages; I think both are quite clear. > - Do users immediately run to search the internet for answers without > even trying to interact any further with their Emacs instance to > investigate the problem first? > - If they do interact with Emacs, what do they do? Do they move the > mouse over the tofu? Do they look for some help some other way? The rational thing to do is to use "C-u C-x =", see the script of the problematic character(s), and then find and install some font that covers those characters.