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

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 16:21, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

> Are you sure that's wrong?

It is an unexpected change, and it look worse. If not a bug, hardly an
improvement.

> If the variable-pitch font you're using is
> taller than the default font, wouldn't it make sense if it caused the
> modeline to become taller too...?

Before that change, for (propertize " " 'face 'variable-pitch) Emacs
was selecting

    uniscribe:-outline-Arial-normal-normal-normal-sans-13-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
(#x03)

Now, it selects

    
uniscribe:-outline-FreeIdgSerif-normal-normal-normal-serif-13-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1
(#x02)

    Juanma