Ar an triú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh stephen(a)xemacs.org: That’s not the case. If there isn’t a match--as will be the case if a Japanese font is looked up and the X11 platform code has initialised the default face’s specifier to -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* --the specifier instantiation code tries the face’s fallback patterns, calling XListFonts for each one. In the X11 code as it stands, for a charset that isn’t available at all in the X server, this means 128 times, often with patterns like: "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1", "-*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1", "-*-courier-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1", "-*-fixed-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1", "-*-*-medium-r-*--*-gb2312.1980-*", "-*-fixed-medium-r-*--*-cns11643*-*", "-*-fixed-medium-r-*--*-big5*-*," "-*-fixed-medium-r-*--*-sisheng_cwnn-0", which are a _total_ waste of time for Ethiopic or the IPA, especially since that no font will support those scripts is _entirely expected._ Maybe my judgement is really bad; in which case I shouldn’t be committing to XEmacs. But if my judgement is reasonable, and I think the work useful, then that’s the closest I can come to predicting that they will too, in the absence of unknown or undocumented philosophical differences with them. -- Santa Maradona, priez pour moi! _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta