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24.3.92; Annoying warning message when emacs is built with lucid X toolkit

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: "18227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <18227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#18227: 24.3.92;
 Annoying warning message when emacs is built with lucid X toolkit
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:22:11 +0200

Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> writes:

> Hi. 
>
>> 12 aug 2014 kl. 18:36 skrev Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> writes:
>> 
>>> That is because the old Xt-based toolkit don't understand Xft fonts
>>> and still use core X fonts.  The font above is the default for the
>>> Emacs widget, but you don't have it installed.  Emacs actually never
>>> uses the default, so we can remove it (done in trunk).  I guess at
>>> some point we did use the default, but no more.
>> 
>> Thanks for explanations, would be great to merge your change in emacs-24
>> branch.
>> 
>
> It is not a regression. 

I don't understand this.

Sorry to insist, but it is not serious releasing emacs-24.4 with such a
bug, for memory:

Warning: Cannot convert string
"-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct

-- 
Thierry
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