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28.2; Default font 'not available' when running dictionary

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alejandro Pérez Carballo <apc <at> umass.edu>
Cc: 58335 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58335: 28.2;
 Default font 'not available' when running dictionary
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:27:08 +0300

> From: Alejandro Pérez Carballo <apc <at> umass.edu>
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 08:38:09 -0400
> 
> I tried calling `dictionary` (just `M-x dictionary RET`) and got the following error:
> 
>     set-face-attribute: Font not available: #<font-spec nil nil default nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil ((:name . "default") (:user-spec . "default"))>
> 
> I do not get this error if I simply run `emacs -Q` and then call `dictionary`. But adding just
> 
>     (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Input")
> 
> suffices to reproduce the error on my system (after calling `emacs -Q -l file.el`, where 'file.el' contains just that one line).

What happens if you invoke Emacs like this:

  emacs -Q -fn Input

I suspect that Input font is not good for Emacs, so it rejects it.

Nevertheless, I think the definition of
dictionary-word-definition-face is problematic: it shouldn't use font
names such as "default", because it will always fail like this:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Font not available" #<font-spec
>   nil nil default nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil ((:name .
>   "default") (:user-spec . "default"))>)

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