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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 02:07:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.2

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: lockywolf <at> gmail.com, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>, 35816 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35816: 26.2; set-frame-font cannot set some fonts which autocomplete suggests due to dashes in names. I.e. gnu-unifont
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:30:44 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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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