Re: [Bug: 21.5-b28] Xft: characters picked from different fonts

Marcus Harnisch writes: OK, good! The partial success means I diagnosed the problem correctly, and I'm pretty sure I know how to fix this properly, but it will be a couple of days before I have time to code it. This is harder. fontconfig provides two kinds of information about how complete the font is, the set of languages whose "standard character sets" are covered completely by the font (which XEmacs pays attention to), and the exact repertoire of characters provided, which we don't (yet). Since these characters aren't part of English (or European languages) as such, sometimes they're in the font, sometimes they're not, and we have to check on a individual code point basis. I'm not really sure offhand how to deal with this, because the user may prefer all the characters to be consistent in a different font rather than some characters in their favorite font, and others in the "ugly" fallback font. Comments on that point (is consistency more important, or is getting your favoritve font most of the time more important?) are welcome. For you personally, the obvious workaround (find a more complete boldface font) may actually be the right answer since you are fairly sensitive to the differences in fonts. Even XEmacs can't cons up a glyph that isn't there in the right style! (That's up to you of course, and the boxes *are* an XEmacs bug. But even if XEmacs provided a fallback glyph, it would be in a different font and you would notice it, I think.) Thank you very much for following up! Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta