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23.0.60; Default Font

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl <at> ig.com.br>
Cc: 1219 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#1219: 23.0.60; Default Font
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:05:53 -0400

I discussed this on emacs-devel at this link:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-10/msg00696.html

David De La Harpe Golden's analysis seems correct to me:

> No. but is it desirable to? If emacs says "monospace" to the OS, and
> the OS returns something usable (see below), should emacs second guess
> it?  The distros with ttf-georgewilliams packages seem to be aware of
> the issue and are fixing it by removing or renaming the font in favour
> of the de-facto standard "monospace" virtual font name
>
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gw-fonts-ttf/+bug/95357/comments/6

So, we should probably leave things as they are.  I'll add a note about
this to etc/PROBLEMS.

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