GNU bug report logs - #2830
23.0.91; Private use area

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jonathan Coxhead <jonathan <at> doves.demon.co.uk>

Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 2830 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 2830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2830: 23.0.91; Private use area
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:11:10 -0400

> Because these characters are from the Private Use Area, Emacs cannot assume
> that just because a font has glyphs at those code points that they are the
> right glyphs. You will need to explicitly tell Emacs that you want to use
> Code2000 to represent the PUA range:

> (set-fontset-font t '(#xe000 . #xf8ff) (font-spec :family "Code2000"))

It would probably make sense to just "use the default font" for any PUA
chars supported by that font.  It's not strictly correct, but in the
absence of any additional info, it seems like a good heuristic.


        Stefan
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