GNU bug report logs - #11450
24.1.50; NS regression: fallback font used even when glyph available in primary font

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Steve Purcell <steve <at> sanityinc.com>

Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:47:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, moreinfo

Found in version 24.1.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 11450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Steve Purcell <steve <at> sanityinc.com>
To: David Leatherman <leathekd <at> gmail.com>
Cc: alptekin.aker <at> gmail.com, 11450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.1.50;
	NS regression: fallback font used even when glyph available in
	primary font
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:38:50 +0100

Hah! I think I made progress. I believe the commit to which you (David) referred is basically helpful, in that it more correctly catalogues the various character ranges.

On a whim, I tried adding a "set-fontset-font" call to my usual font setup, as shown below:

  (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'symbol "PragmataPro")
  (set-face-attribute 'default nil :foundry "apple" :family "PragmataPro" :height 140)

And that actually causes Emacs to use the default font for both the "GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA" and "EMPTY SET" characters. 

I guess that in the absence of this line, Emacs asks the system for a font which supports the "symbol" character range, without first trying the default font.

As for why Menlo works like this out of the box and the other fonts don't, that's still a mystery to me.

-Steve
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