From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Configuring fontsets with `unicode-fonts` [Was: Re: Should minibuffer prompt be made intangible by default?]
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 19:57:45 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3eos7zq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k2khu6u0.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Installing fonts doesn't necessarily resolve the fontset
> configuration problems, especially since no package can know
> what other fonts are available on the end-user system.
Sorry, i'm not sure you understand what the `unicode-fonts`
package does? It doesn't provide fonts itself, but configures
fontsets to use fonts on a users' system for maximum Unicode
coverage. As the package's README.md says:
font mappings via fontsets are a bit difficult to
configure. In addition, the default setup does not always pick
the most legible fonts. As the manual warns, the choice of
font actually displayed for a non-ASCII character is "somewhat
random".
The Unicode standard provides a way to organize font mappings:
it divides character ranges into logical groups called
"blocks". This library configures Emacs in a Unicode-friendly
way by providing mappings from
each Unicode block ---to---> a font with good coverage
and makes the settings available via the customization
interface.
This library provides font mappings for 233 of the 255 blocks
in the Unicode 8.0 standard which are public and have
displayable characters. It assumes that 6 Latin blocks are
covered by the default font. 16/255 blocks are not mapped to
any known font.
(However, the README.md /does/ suggests some fonts for users to
download to facilitate the `unicode-fonts` package's work.)
Alexis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-02 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-30 16:46 Should minibuffer prompt be made intangible by default? (Was debbugs 21874: 25.0.50; point-entered no longer works) Kaushal Modi
2016-03-31 12:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 14:58 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-03-31 16:46 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-31 21:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-31 22:04 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-01 1:40 ` Configuring fontsets with `unicode-fonts` [Was: Re: Should minibuffer prompt be made intangible by default?] Alexis
2016-04-01 7:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-01 10:00 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-01 10:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 8:57 ` Alexis [this message]
2016-04-02 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-02 11:30 ` Alexis
2016-04-01 10:00 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-04-02 11:31 ` Alexis
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