bug#2994: Recent change to font.c:font_load_for_lface affects variable-pitch face in the modeline

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <f7ccd24b0904140457l1beae924j74b8b11e5f943eb7@mail.gmail.com>, 
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> This change affects using variable-pitch on the modeline:

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2009-04-13  Kenichi Handa  <handa@m17n.org>

>         * font.c [...]
>         (font_load_for_lface): Get a font that supports at least ASCII
>         characters.

This change requires the support of has_char method in a
font-driver, but I noticed that it is is not supported on
Windows and Mac.  So, I cancelled that change.

That change was to avoid selecting a bitmap font of `ja' and
`ko' adstyle in Xft backend.  But as the backned returns the
correct `avgwidth' property for bitmap fonts now, I think
such a font won't be selected if a user specifies a
preferable `avgwidth' as this:

In article <20090407022803.GB5160@metasyntax.net>, Taylor Venable 
<taylor@metasyntax.net> writes:

[...]
> My .emacs file looks like this:

> (defvar taylor-misc-fixed-large 
> "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1"
>   "Miscellaneous fixed Unicode font - larger version.")

Taylor, could you please try again with the latest code?

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org