Subject: Re: bug#24560: 25.1; With `--font 7x13', wrong font is used for Unicode characters

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 08:21:21 +0100

Vladimir Panteleev <[email-masked]> writes:

> On a GNU/Linux system running X.Org, if Emacs is set to use the X11
> fixed font 7x13 (e.g. by specifying `--font 7x13' on the command line),
> Emacs will use the incorrect font for Unicode (non-ASCII)
> characters. Specifically:
>
> - US-ASCII characters are rendered using the correct font.
>
> - Cyrillic (e.g. letters of the Russian alphabet) and some other
>   characters (e.g. '¢' (CENT SIGN)) are rendered with the 12x13 font
>   instead of the indicated 7x13 font.

I tried this in Debian with Emacs 26 and 27, and inserted a CENT SIGN,
and it was displayed correctly:

    x:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 (#xA2)

(which is the same as all the other characters).

Are you still seeing this problem in modern versions of Emacs?

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