Subject: Re: bug#35816: 26.2; set-frame-font cannot set some fonts which autocomplete suggests due to dashes in names. I.e. gnu-unifont

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 09:31:44 +0200

On Aug 12 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Another important API that accepts font names is
> set-face-font, and you will see that there's already some heuristics
> in set-face-attribute to support the likes of "Courier-10", which is a
> Fontconfig format of specifying a font family.

Note that fontconfig requires a dash in the family name to be quoted.

$ fc-match 'Montserrat\-ExtraLightItalic'
Montserrat-ExtraLightItalic.pfb: "Montserrat-ExtraLightItalic" "ExtraLight"
$ fc-match 'Montserrat-ExtraLightItalic'
Montserrat-Regular.otf: "Montserrat" "Regular"

Andreas.

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