Re: Ping! Re: `font-spec` unable to retrieve :name of font

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On 23 Oct 2015, Alexis told this:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> That said, I had a similar problem with fonts named like Foobar-12, see commit 7d5a7a4 which solved that.  (The original problem
>> is described in the discussion that started in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-emacs-windows/2015-06/msg00001.html.) That
>> problem could be solved because the part after the dash was a number, and a font's family cannot be a number.  I don't know if we
>> can do the same with this case. Which "family" names are we allowed to reject, exactly?  Don't forget that the weight field of the
>> XLFD spec, which follows the family, uses single-letter codes (although AFAIK "g" is not one of them); we ought not to trick
>> ourselves into accidentally treating weight as part of the font name.
>
> Yes, i gave some thought to possible heuristics that could be used in instances such as this, but didn't come up with anything
> practical .... i might see if i can use FontForge to change the name to something XLFD-friendly (e.g. 'InconsolataG').

This seems like a transformation Emacs should be doing itself. It
doesn't need to be a *pretty* transformation: after all, the XLFD
variant is never going to be displayed to the user, nor passed to
Fontconfig: it's just an internal thing for parts of Emacs expecting
XLFDs.

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