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23.0.93; GTK font selection: asked for Courier, got Nimbus

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From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>, 3228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3228: 23.0.93; GTK font selection: asked for Courier, got Nimbus
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 15:57:34 +0900

In article <87eiv23bz6.fsf <at> turtle.gmx.de>, Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> writes:

> I have set up the following X resources for Emacs:
> Emacs.FontBackend: xft, x
> Emacs.font:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1
[...]
> But choosing "Courier 12" from the GTK font selection dialog gives me
> another font, and an extremely ugly one:

> ,----
> |         character: S (83, #o123, #x53)
> | preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
> |        code point: 0x53
> |            syntax: w 	which means: word
> |          category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
> |       buffer code: #x53
> |         file code: #x53 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
> |           display: by this font (glyph code)
> |     x:-urw-nimbus mono l-regular-r-normal--17-123-100-100-p-100-iso8859-1 (#x53)
> `---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I can't reproduce it.  Please show me the result of these
commands:

% fc-list courier file

And also try this:
% start Emacs as usual
ESC : (setq font-log nil) RET
;; choose 'courier 12' font from the GTK dialog
M-x font-show-log RET

and show me the *Help* buffer.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa <at> m17n.org

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