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bug#24644: 26.0.50; Emacs 25: set-fontset-font does not take effect with
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24644: 26.0.50; Emacs 25: set-fontset-font does not take effect with some ASCII symbols |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Oct 2016 17:43:29 +0300 |
> Cc: 24644@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 10:29:44 -0400
>
> I don't understand why the original change was needed, though. What
> prevented users from adding the default font as the first font in their
> fontset? Wouldn't that have achieved exactly the same (pick the character
> from the default font if available, and otherwise from the next one in the
> fontset)?
The intent was for Emacs to DTRT _by_default_, without asking users to
customize their fontsets. Doing the latter is somewhat tricky, and
besides it's considered a Good Thing for a program to behave as users
expect out of the box.