Confirmed fixed in 25.1. I did have to remove the inheritance from mode-line to get the font proper, but I knew to look for that. Perhaps disabling inheritance by default? Or something for NEWS. :)

Thanks!
Erik


On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Erik Selberg <erik@selberg.org> wrote:
I see fixed in 25.1. Thx ill give that a look-see.

Cheers,
-e

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> On Nov 18, 2016, at 7:49 AM, Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:06:28 +0100
>>> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
>>> Cc: erik@selberg.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>>
>>>> Indeed, I think this change should be described in NEWS.  Could you
>>>> provide a patch for that, please?
>>>
>>> Please note that there's nothing new here, it was just a bug fix.
>>> The very first message in the bug report mentioned above states
>>>
>>>        In Emacs 24.3, comint-highlight-prompt allows ANSI colors to show through
>>>        if it does not specify any colors itself. In Emacs 24.4, it does not, even
>>>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>        if comint-highlight-prompt is the "empty face".
>>
>> Then how do you explain the OP's confusion on this matter?
>
> He said that he "made the following patch against 24.5", so I guess
> that's what he runs and that release still had the regression
> reported in bug#20084 (see my closing message there).
>
> Wolfgang
>
>