Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 1c58fa1: Fix variable-pitch font on MS-Windows

[Stefan Monnier]

> -  '((t :family "Sans Serif"))
> +  '((((type w32))
> +     ;; This is a kludgey workaround for an issue discussed in
> +     ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-04/msg00746.html.
> +     :font "-outline-Arial-normal-normal-normal-sans-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1")
> +    (t :family "Sans Serif"))

This is really curious.  Why does Emacs pick a bold-italic face when we
don't specify bold (nor italic)?

I understand that the above defface doesn't explicitly specify ":slanted
nil", but it's still very puzzling.


        Stefan