poor font choice

poor font choice

[Stefan Monnier]

Here is a problem that existed before with the "old" font-backend, but
still exists (tho the specific poor font chosen happens to be
different):

I have some mostly ascii text with one ellipsis char.  The ascii text is
shown in

  -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

while the ellipsis (#x2026) uses

  -MUTT-ClearlyU-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

The fact is the misc-fixed font also provides the ellipsis char, so
there's no reason to resort to something else like ClearlyU.

The problem is probably due to the fact that the font used for the ascii
text is ...-iso8859-1 rather than ...-iso10646-1, but that's no excuse
for preferring -MUTT-ClearlyU-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
over -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1


        Stefan

Re: poor font choice

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Here is a problem that existed before with the "old" font-backend, but
> still exists (tho the specific poor font chosen happens to be
> different):

On my Windows build, ASCII chars are

 -outline-Courier New-normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1

but the euro sign is shown with

  -outline-Arial Unicode MS-normal-normal-normal-sans-13-*-*-*-p-*-jisx0208-sjis

and ä, é, etc are shown with

  -outline-Courier New-normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-m-*-windows-1258

Weird.

 Juanma

Re: poor font choice

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <jwvbq386rca.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I have some mostly ascii text with one ellipsis char.  The ascii text is
> shown in

>   -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

> while the ellipsis (#x2026) uses

>   -MUTT-ClearlyU-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

I've just installed a fix.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp

Re: poor font choice

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I have some mostly ascii text with one ellipsis char.  The ascii text is
>> shown in
>> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
>> while the ellipsis (#x2026) uses
>> -MUTT-ClearlyU-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

> I've just installed a fix.

Confirmed, than you,


        Stefan