From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etc/HELLO markup etc. Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:06:22 +0900 Message-ID: <87pnta56td.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lg486awy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546776343 10174 195.159.176.226 (6 Jan 2019 12:05:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 12:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 13:05:38 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from listsout.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gg7BR-0002VR-Lz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 13:05:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gg7DY-0006ic-3T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 07:07:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggsout.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34638 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gg7Cl-0006hY-IL for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 07:07:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gg7Ch-0006AL-F9 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 07:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gg7CK-0005sL-SB; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 07:06:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fl1-125-192-177-121.iba.mesh.ad.jp ([125.192.177.121]:33984 helo=shatin) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gg7CE-0001jU-MR; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 07:06:28 -0500 Original-Received: from handa by shatin with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1gg7CB-0005fS-2F; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:06:23 +0900 In-Reply-To: <83lg486awy.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 29 Dec 2018 09:37:33 +0200) 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: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232209 Archived-At: In article <83lg486awy.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii writes: > What about using the charset information in general for font > selection? Do you think this is a valuable feature, or was it again > designed only due to the issues you mention above with fonts designed > for legacy charsets? The latter. As an Open Type font has shaping rules for script and/or language, script and language information is more useful than charset. --- K. Handa handa@gnu.org