From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: utf8 char display in buffer Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:53:47 -0400 Message-ID: <87tz2gi8t0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <7I2dndeTy7sqkLLXnZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> <4A32D54D.1040405@mousecar.com> <87my8czzgx.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245160512 20566 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2009 13:55:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Miles Bader , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 16 15:55:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MGZ7v-000551-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:55:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44573 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGZ7u-00088C-Ie for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGZ7C-0006oP-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGZ77-0006cP-CG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56386 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGZ77-0006bj-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po34.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.80]:49449) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGZ71-0001fH-Nt; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:54:07 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014144.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po34.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n5GDroYv011556 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5EBC3C09B; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:53:47 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:30:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111540 Archived-At: James Cloos writes: > Apple went in a slightly different direction and commissioned a fallback > font from Michael Everson which has one glyph per Unicode script and uses > that for each character associated with said script. If your system has a font for display a character, Emacs will automatically use that font. But I don't think we should package a fallback font into the Emacs distribution. The benefit would be marginal anyway; if a user lacks a system font for displaying a script, he or she probably cannot read that script.