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23.0.92; font-info incompatible across Emacs versions

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Message #20 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Miles Bader'" <miles <at> gnu.org>
Cc: <2949 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#2949: 23.0.92; font-info incompatible across Emacs versions
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:43:52 -0700

> > In Emacs 20, `font-info' returns an array like this: ...
> > In Emacs 22 and later, it returns an array like this: ...
> > This breaks any code that tries to use the result with 
> > different Emacs versions.
> 
> So.... what exactly do you want to happen?
> 
> The two formats look easy enough to distinguish.  Since the change
> occurred in 22, it's been widely released, so obviously 3rd-party code
> simply has to be prepared to deal with it (if they care about 21 and
> older versions), and there's little point in changing it back now.

I guess nothing can be done.

But I do wonder why CHARSET was dropped from both `font-info' and
`describe-font'. There seems to be nothing about this in NEWS (e.g. for Emacs
22). Is the character set no longer meaningful? useful? appropriate?
discoverable?

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