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incorrect font chosen

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: incorrect font chosen
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:28:56 -0700

Emacs still uses the wrong font in some cases.

First do:

xrdb /dev/null

Then:

emacs -Q -xrm 'emacs.Font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1'

uses the lucidatypewriter font for the default face, but doing:

emacs -Q -xrm 'Emacs.Font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1'

uses:
    x:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 (#x20)

This used to work fine before the unicode-2 merge.

This message might help pinpoint the problem: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/101403

Message #10 received at 893 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: incorrect font chosen
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:26:47 -0400

>  xrdb /dev/null
>
>  emacs -Q -xrm 'emacs.Font:
>  -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1'
>
> uses the lucidatypewriter font for the default face, but doing:
>
>  emacs -Q -xrm 'Emacs.Font:
>   -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1'
>
> uses:
>
>   x:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 (#x20)

I can't reproduce this problem either.  Do you still see it?  If so, any
luck debugging?

Message #15 received at 893 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: incorrect font chosen
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:29:37 -0700 (PDT)

Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> writes:

  > >  xrdb /dev/null
  > >
  > >  emacs -Q -xrm 'emacs.Font:
  > >  -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1'
  > >
  > > uses the lucidatypewriter font for the default face, but doing:
  > >
  > >  emacs -Q -xrm 'Emacs.Font:
  > >   -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1'
  > >
  > > uses:
  > >
  > >   x:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 (#x20)
  > 
  > I can't reproduce this problem either.  Do you still see it?  

It's still present with the latest CVS and an up to date Fedora 9 system.

  > If so, any luck debugging?

Sorry, I don't have the time at the moment to do this.

Message #20 received at 893 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: incorrect font chosen
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:51:25 -0400

Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu> writes:

> It seems that on Fedora 9 the default emacs package installs
> /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs with this content:
>
> Emacs*font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-12-120-75-75-*-*-*-*
>
> If I move it out of the way, everything works fine.  But that is not
> the only problem.
>
> If you remember from my initial report on this, I have an older
> version of emacs from CVS from February 27th (I think before the
> unicode-2 merge), and that one works fine even if
> /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Emacs is present.

I played around with this a little.  If I put

Emacs*font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-12-120-75-75-*-*-*-*

in my .Xresources file, then

emacs -Q -xrm 'Emacs.Font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1'
>>> -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1

emacs -Q -xrm 'emacs.Font: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1'
>>> -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-12-120-75-75-m-70-iso10646-1

This behavior is the same for both CVS Emacs and Emacs 22.

I think this behavior makes sense, because the "emacs" X attribute
setting should override the "Emacs" class setting, and the "font"
attribute setting overrides the "Font" class setting.  Maybe your Feb 27
build contained a bug that was subsequently fixed.

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