bug#9646: 24.0.90; Daemon does not heed desired font

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

eythanweg@gmail.com (Eythan Weg) writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:56:11 +0300
>
>    > From: Eythan Weg <eythanweg@gmail.com>
>    > Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:09:37 -0400
>    >
>    > I start emacs --daemon  with the .emacs content just this:
>    >
>    > (setq initial-frame-alist '((font . "DejaVu Sans")))
>    >
>    > Now visit a file with hebrew text.  The hebrew chars are shown using
>    > freefont.  Do the same without --daemon and the font is chosen
>    > correctly.
>
>    The daemon does not display its initial frame, so you are customizing
>    a frame that is never shown.
>
>    Why do you request this font only for the initial frame?  If you do
>    the same with default-frame-alist, does it do what you want, both in
>    daemon mode and normal invocation?
>
> My original response was sent mistakenly only to Eli.  Here is a revised
> version.
>
> To replicate what I see follow this recipe:
>
> Create the file test.el containing:
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist  '(font . "DejaVu Sans Mono-14"))
> (set-fontset-font t 'hebrew '("DejaVu Sans" . "unicode-bmp"))
>
> Now run:
>
> emacs -Q -l test.el file.txt
>
> where file.txt contains some Hebrew characters.
> The Hebrew text appears in DejaVu Sans.
>
> Now run:
> emacs --daemon -Q -l test.el
> emacsclient -c file.txt.
>
> The Hebrew text does not appear in DejaVu Sans,  and moreover if file.txt
> contains niqud it is incorrectly composed in that font.  In my
> case emacs chooses to use FreeMono.

(That was 9 years ago.)

Do you still see this on a recent version of Emacs, such as the recently
released version 27.1?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas