From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
Cc: 25216@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25216: 26.0.50 [regression]; Curly quotes are not found in some sizes of ‘Terminus’ font
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 10:57:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wpegh3wl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2agfxq2.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Dmitry Alexandrov on Sat, 31 Dec 2016 08:56:21 +0300)
> From: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
> Cc: 25216@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 08:56:21 +0300
>
> >> > And I still don't understand why you need that. AFAICS, Emacs
> >> > explicitly tries to use the default font for punctuation and symbol
> >> > characters before falling back on looking up other fonts.
> >>
> >> Do you mean that you could not reproduce this?
> >
> > It means I don't understand how it could happen. The function
> > face_for_char (defined in fontset.c) explicitly tries the current
> > default font for any punctuation and symbol character, before it
> > starts looking in other fonts. I don't understand why this fails for
> > you, and only in certain font sizes on top of that. Perhaps you could
> > step through that code with a debugger and see what happens there?
>
> Well. font_has_char of font.c:2989 returns 0 ← xftfont_has_char of xftfont.c:532 returns 0 ← XftCharExists of libXft.so.2 returns 0.
>
> So the problem goes into libxft2.
Thanks for digging into this. So in this case libxft2 says that
character is not available, whereas in fact it is? Or did I
misunderstand?
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-17 1:03 bug#25216: 26.0.50 [regression]; Curly quotes are not found in some sizes of ‘Terminus’ font Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-12-17 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-17 9:33 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-12-17 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 3:17 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-12-19 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 4:52 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-12-19 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 4:53 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-12-19 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 6:14 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-12-19 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-20 2:51 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-12-20 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-31 5:56 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2016-12-31 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-17 7:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-17 8:38 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2019-11-17 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-20 15:01 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2019-11-25 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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