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: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:30:44 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> That's not what Emacs requires, at least not according to the manual.
> And the code doesn't seem to support such quoting, unless I'm missing
> something.

Our XLFD parser parses a backslash characters as a literal backslash
character (i.e., we don't support such quoting).  It might be a good
idea, though.  On the other hand, `x-list-fonts' (etc; ie,
Vfontset_table?) would then have to quoting...

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