On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:36 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>  If the frame's font requires that, the new session will use that same backend anyway. 

Is that so? I thought there could be problems with some fonts that Emacs wouldn't know to

solve. Or do you mean that the user will have set the font backend in default-frame-alist?

> IOW, we might be over-engineering here, and just filtering it out should do the job.

Well, that's a one-line change (plus rebuilding the autoloads).