From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rudolf Schlatte Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggest installing more fonts? Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:30:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2k6v378.fsf@gnu.org> <87eely5mof.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19129"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (darwin) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:tbyh78hMsz6ow48PgU6473PBBMY= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 15:32:39 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPqZ-0004sX-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:32:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42664 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPqY-0007xL-Q8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPov-0006u7-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:30:57 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:47654 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPos-0000g2-Vy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:30:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPom-0002nR-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:30:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/16 09:30:49 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257807 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> I think the best we can do here is (a) add more fonts to the default >> fontset (it isn't trivial, as quite a few good fonts aren't free); and >> (b) have a command to report which of the fonts mentioned in the >> default fontset aren't available. > > There's still the issue of letting them know what the issue is. > Clearly, showing them tofu isn't enough, because the issue comes up > again and again. > > Popping up a warning buffer (at the first time tofu is displayed per > session) may be OK, but could be annoying? However, our warning buffers > now have buttons to easily disable the warning permanently, so it might > be OK. > > Displaying a message in the echo area (again, only the first time we > tofu in a session) saying something like "Unable to display character; > type `C-h TO-BE-DETERMINED' for more information" might also be an > option. > > Or... adding help echo text props to tofu? We give non-character bytes > in a buffer a special font, so that would be kinda analogous. Adding information about which font carries the missing glyph to the screen displayed with ‘C-u C-x =’ would be a possibility. Rudi