From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: X fonts selection weirdness Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:40:01 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20080624.145703.566779761171555788.kasahara@nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp> <20080624.180802.154682915676368965.kasahara@nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp> <87wskdtyq4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214480434 31809 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2008 11:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kasahara@nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 26 13:41:19 2008 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 1KBpql-0006JL-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBppv-0007GD-IB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:40:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBppo-0007Do-Ev for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBppl-00077k-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53213 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBppl-00077c-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]:51563) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBppf-0005yo-Gl; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m5QBe3nh006105; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:40:03 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp3.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m5QBe3b7025824; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:40:03 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp3.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id m5QBe1s1002999; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:40:01 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KBppZ-00052B-3s; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:40:01 +0900 In-reply-to: <87wskdtyq4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:45:23 +0900) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:99960 Archived-At: In article <87wskdtyq4.fsf@catnip.gol.com>, Miles Bader writes: > If I specify, for instance, a default font of "Sazanami 12", that works > great for both ascii and CJK characters, and has the rather nice > property that the 2-1 width ration of CJK and ascii characters is > preserved exactly (so, e.g., character graphics look correct). In such a case, that font is anyway selected for CJK characters in the normal fontset looking up because the default fontset doesn't specify a family and thus the default family sazanami scores high in font sorting. > I gather you're instead talking about fonts that mainly cover ascii, and > "accidentally" happen to include some other characters? That's one reason. Another is, as I wrote, to use a font of proper OpenType tables. --- Kenichi Handa handa@ni.aist.go.jp