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> From: VanL <van@scratch.space>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 04:50:23 +1100
> 
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Preload which fonts? Emacs doesnʼt know which fonts itʼs going to need
> > until it sees what characters itʼs being asked to display.
> 
> The font to preload is 'CMU Typewriter Text' and I expect the sequence
> of binary from file are interpreted by Emacs, magically, into code
> points that map to characters in the Unicode font.

You expect that based on your customizations?  If so, can you show
those customizations?  The default font is not CMU Typewriter Text, so
you must somehow tell Emacs you want this font instead.

> But, maybe Emacs's Unicode handling is half baked.

Why, of course!  "Half baked" is actually an understatement.  Emacs
doesn't really grok Unicode at all...