From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Font selection algorithm / how do fonts work / what do you suggest for mono font? Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 05:36:03 +0300 Message-ID: <83wphz9ylo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87twd46n3c.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> <837fa0at9x.fsf@gnu.org> <878tuf7qdt.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474857375 27123 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2016 02:36:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 02:36:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 26 04:36:12 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1boLlz-0005fl-VM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 04:36:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boLly-0004ZG-4b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boLlX-0004Z8-Hw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:35:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boLlS-0005sM-SW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boLlS-0005sF-Ou for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3843 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1boLlQ-0002s7-Ur for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:35:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <878tuf7qdt.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> (message from Oleksandr Gavenko on Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:04:14 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111390 Archived-At: > From: Oleksandr Gavenko > Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:04:14 +0300 > > On 2016-09-25, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I don't see much changes in font selection algorithm. The algorithm didn't change, but we changed the default fontset to better cover various ranges that were not covered well before. > Actually I have a problem, as I wrote ``terminus`` font missed some glyphs and > I expect that: > > (set-fontset-font nil nil "-misc-fixed-*-*-*--13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*") > > was as fallback. But it has no effect. Fix with range resolve issue: > > ;; MODIFIER LETTER is not present in terminus, this includes ˌːˈ characters. > (set-fontset-font nil '(#x02C0 . #x02FF) "-misc-fixed-*-*-*--13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*") > > Do I need file bug or I am wrong with (set-fontset-font nil nil ...)? On my system these characters display well by default. If the problem is that these characters are displayed, but you don't like the font Emacs selects, I think that's something you should customize 9as you did), and not a bug you should report.