From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Suggest installing more fonts?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:54:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
This is just a stray thought:
I think, over the years, the most common question users have that has an
easy-to-fix solution is: "Why is Emacs displaying boxes for some of
these characters I'm seeing?" The solution is "install some more
fonts", of course.
But could Emacs be more helpful here? That is, could we somehow,
unobtrusively, tell the users this when Emacs is trying to display a
character that it has no fonts for?
For added helpfulness, would it be possible for Emacs to be even more
specific? Like, say "sudo apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji
fonts-symbola", or whatever, depending on the system.
Fonts change over the years, so this would be an added maintenance
burden... but they don't change a lot: New general-use fonts with good
coverage aren't created very often.
(Perhaps distribution packagers could also push more fonts as part of
the Emacs installation, but that'd probably be more controversial.)
--
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2020-10-16 10:54 Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-10-16 11:07 ` Suggest installing more fonts? Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 11:30 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-16 12:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 12:59 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-16 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 14:38 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-16 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 16:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-16 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-17 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-17 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 15:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-17 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 13:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-16 14:08 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-16 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 15:51 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-16 13:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-16 13:30 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2020-10-17 6:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-16 14:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 6:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-17 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-18 8:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-18 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-19 8:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-19 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-20 10:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-20 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 10:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-21 11:31 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-21 11:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-21 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 16:03 ` tofu-help-mode (was: Suggest installing more fonts?) Stefan Monnier
2020-10-22 12:07 ` tofu-help-mode Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-22 15:21 ` tofu-help-mode Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 10:46 ` tofu-help-mode Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-21 17:46 ` Suggest installing more fonts? Michael Albinus
2020-10-21 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 7:27 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-22 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 16:53 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-23 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-25 11:47 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-25 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 17:25 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-21 11:59 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-10-21 12:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-21 12:31 ` Stephen Berman
2020-10-21 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 20:19 ` Rasmus
2020-10-22 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 12:34 ` Rasmus
2020-10-22 13:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-21 20:19 ` Rasmus
2020-10-22 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-22 12:02 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-22 12:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-22 12:29 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-22 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 8:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-23 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 15:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-23 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:43 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-23 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-24 9:35 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-23 10:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-23 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-23 18:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-23 18:18 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-22 13:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 13:40 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-22 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-22 14:20 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-22 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 18:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-16 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-16 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-17 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 13:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-16 19:42 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-16 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-16 22:14 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-16 22:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-16 23:02 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-17 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 11:21 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-17 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 13:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-17 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 16:09 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-17 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 17:37 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-17 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 18:36 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-17 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 19:18 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-17 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-18 8:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-18 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-17 17:30 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-18 4:12 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-18 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-20 22:46 ` Stephen Leake
2020-10-17 6:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-17 9:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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