Subject: Re: bug#33019: 26.1; can not set fontset as frame font by set-frame-font

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 19:38:00 +0900

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> When a font family is specified for some range of "fontset-default",
>> :family specification of text face is ignored in the range.
>
> So the problem is not the fontset but displaying faces defined using
> :family, is that right?

It may be an alternative solution.

>> (insert (propertize "ABC" 'face '(:family "Noto Serif")))
>> shows characters with "Noto Serif".
>> 
>> (progn (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" '(#x4E00 . #x9FFF)
>>                          "Noto Sans CJK JP Regular")
>>        (insert (propertize "\x4E00" 'face '(:family "Noto Serif CJK JP"))))
>> shows the character with "Noto Sans CJK JP Regular",
>> not "Noto Serif CJK JP".
>
> Why do you define this range of characters to use Noto Sans if you
> actually want to see it in Noto Serif?  And in any case, why do use
> :family instead of specific font in the face definition?

I want to display some web pages partially with serif fonts.
Also I want to display chinese language text with "Noto Serif CJK SC"
or "Noto Serif CJK TC".