Subject: bug#20628: 25.0.50; Incorrect line height for some fonts

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 16:54:03 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 09:27:52 -0400
> 
> >> So the question becomes: why does Emacs select this font and how could
> >> we change ti so it selects something else.
> > Emacs selects that font because it's available, and claims support for
> > the particular character Emacs needs to display.
> 
> That doesn't explain why it selects that font instead of some other font
> (say Symbola).

Most probably because it came up first in the search.