Subject: Re: 24.1.50; NS regression: fallback font used even when glyph available in primary font

From: Steve Purcell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:21:34 +0100

One caveat with the "set-fontset-font" approach is that the given font is used unconditionally for all characters in the 'symbol ranges; if the font doesn't contain glyphs for a certain symbol character, Emacs will display the empty box character rather than look for an alternative font containing that character.

So this is something of a workaround, rather than a definitive solution.

-Steve