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In-Reply-To: <87frz020di.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:02:17 +0800) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:278180 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: crypto@timruffing.de, stefankangas@gmail.com, 67810@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:02:17 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Po Lu > >> Cc: crypto@timruffing.de, stefankangas@gmail.com, 67810@debbugs.gnu.org > >> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:46:28 +0800 > >> > >> Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> > >> > Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying here. Could you please > >> > say it in simpler words? What are "icon fonts"? and what do you mean > >> > by "it can be removed"? > >> > >> Fonts designed to provide symbol icons, which are inserted by packages > >> that can control the `face' property of the text inserted. Such fonts > >> don't provide bold variants, and they did prompt this bug report. > > > > So you are talking about fonts that use PUA codepoints to show icons? > > Or are you talking about fonts whose glyphs for "normal" characters > > (i.e. characters defined by the Unicode Standard) are replaced with > > icons that look similarly? > > The former, yes. OK, so what is the problem with allowing those users to have the variable I proposed, for use with such fonts?