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 15:50:24 +0300 Message-ID: <83tuuuuygf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2k6v378.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35253"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 14:51:25 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 1kTPCe-00093G-Nq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:51:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60360 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPCd-0004RZ-Pu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:51:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPBi-0003r8-NK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPBi-0002t2-9G; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3713 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPBh-0004Kb-FJ; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:50:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Gregory Heytings on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:30:40 +0000) 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:257799 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:30:40 +0000 > From: Gregory Heytings > cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > A suggestion: would it not be better to include a version of GNU Unifont > in Emacs? Including a font with Emacs is problematic, since installing a font requires system-wide actions. (Personally, I think Unifont is an ugly font, with many character glyphs completely illegible, and distributing is with Emacs will only cause us look unprofessional. But that's my personal view.)