GNU bug report logs - #67810
29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk

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Message #92 received at 67810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: crypto <at> timruffing.de, 67810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#67810: 29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:02:17 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
>> Cc: crypto <at> timruffing.de,  stefankangas <at> gmail.com,  67810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:46:28 +0800
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying here.  Could you please
>> > say it in simpler words?  What are "icon fonts"? and what do you mean
>> > by "it can be removed"?
>> 
>> Fonts designed to provide symbol icons, which are inserted by packages
>> that can control the `face' property of the text inserted.  Such fonts
>> don't provide bold variants, and they did prompt this bug report.
>
> So you are talking about fonts that use PUA codepoints to show icons?
> Or are you talking about fonts whose glyphs for "normal" characters
> (i.e. characters defined by the Unicode Standard) are replaced with
> icons that look similarly?

The former, yes.

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