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#19752
25.0.50; fonts in HTML
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Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 01:11:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.0.50
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #29 received at 19752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
> Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I received message in Rmail which had this:
>>
>> <body bgcolor="#ebebeb" class="ready" margin="0" padding="0" style="background:#ebebeb; margin:0; padding:0;">
>>
>> and a lot of the text was unreadable on the tty. This seems to happen
>> with a lot of messages (even some that are not spam).
>>
>> Setting shr-inhibit-decoration to t made it possible to read the text.
>
> Looking at this a bit more, I'm going to guess that the problem is that
> on consoles, Emacs doesn't have enough colours to display this stuff
> sensibly.
>
> What does (display-color-cells) return for you?
FWIW, I tried this on the Linux console and got 8. I guess ideally
Richard would try if evaluating the following and see if it solves the
problem for him:
(setq shr-use-colors nil)
> If this is the case, we could fix this issue with something like the
> patch below.
>
> diff --git a/lisp/net/shr.el b/lisp/net/shr.el
> index 0cd15dcfe0..d4c99219bc 100644
> --- a/lisp/net/shr.el
> +++ b/lisp/net/shr.el
> @@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ shr-discard-aria-hidden
> :version "27.1"
> :type 'boolean)
>
> -(defcustom shr-use-colors t
> +(defcustom shr-use-colors (> (display-color-cells) 256)
> "If non-nil, respect color specifications in the HTML."
> - :version "26.1"
> + :version "27.1"
> :type 'boolean)
>
> (defcustom shr-table-horizontal-line nil
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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