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

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

Ping! Does anyone have any thoughts on the below? TIA!

Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Having tried various alternatives, i now use Inconsolata-g as my 
> preferred general Emacs font:
>
>     http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html
>
> using Xft as my Emacs font backend.
>
> In trying to use the `company-quickhelp` package, however, i 
> discovered that it wasn't working due to a call to 
> `pos-tip-show`,  which in turn essentially calls:
>
>     (font-spec :name (frame-parameter (window-frame 
>     (selected-window)) 'font))
>
> This call results in:
>
>     (error "Invalid font name: 
>     -unknown-Inconsolata-g-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
>
> which is, of course, due to the dash in the font name; the X 
> Logical Font Description Conventions:
>
>     http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/XLFD/xlfd.html#fontname_syntax
>
> exclude the dash/hyphen as a valid in-field character.
>
> What, if anything, can be done about this? Should this be 
> considered a bug, or "working as intended"?
>
>
> Alexis.