bug#9646: 24.0.90; Daemon does not heed desired font

[eythanweg@gmail.com (Eythan Weg)]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:56:11 +0300

   > From: Eythan Weg <eythanweg@gmail.com>
   > Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:09:37 -0400
   > 
   > I start emacs --daemon  with the .emacs content just this:
   > 
   > (setq initial-frame-alist '((font . "DejaVu Sans")))
   > 
   > Now visit a file with hebrew text.  The hebrew chars are shown using
   > freefont.  Do the same without --daemon and the font is chosen
   > correctly.
   
   The daemon does not display its initial frame, so you are customizing
   a frame that is never shown.
   
   Why do you request this font only for the initial frame?  If you do
   the same with default-frame-alist, does it do what you want, both in
   daemon mode and normal invocation?

My original response was sent mistakenly only to Eli.  Here is a revised
version.

To replicate what I see follow this recipe:

Create the file test.el containing:
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist  '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-14"))
(set-fontset-font t 'hebrew '("DejaVu Sans" . "unicode-bmp"))

Now run:

emacs -Q -l test.el file.txt

where file.txt contains some Hebrew characters.  
The Hebrew text appears in DejaVu Sans.

Now run:
emacs --daemon -Q -l test.el
emacsclient -c file.txt.

The Hebrew text does not appear in DejaVu Sans,  and moreover if file.txt
contains niqud it is incorrectly composed in that font.  In my
case emacs chooses to use FreeMono.