bug#2994: Fwd: NS: font regression?

[David Reitter]

For the problem stated below, it turns out this change (to font.c) is  
correlated with it.  Without it, fonts work OK under NS.

Credits to Juanma for suggesting to try this.

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@@ -3455,7 +3461,8 @@ font_load_for_lface (f, attrs, spec)
{
 Lisp_Object entity;

-  entity = font_find_for_lface (f, attrs, spec, -1);
+  /* We assume that a font that supports 'A' supports ASCII chars.  */
+  entity = font_find_for_lface (f, attrs, spec, 'A');
 if (NILP (entity))
   {
     /* No font is listed for SPEC, but each font-backend may have
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Begin forwarded message:

> From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
> Date: April 16, 2009 6:09:33 PM EDT
> To: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Subject: NS: font regression?
>
> Was there a regression regarding font handling?
>
> In NS, this:
>
>    (apply 'set-face-attribute 'default
>            (selected-frame) (list :family "Mistral"
>                                 :height (* 10 14)))
>
> used to work as expected.  Now, it sets the height correctly, but  
> not the font.
>
> I verified correctness for revision [git] 7924617 ( Mon Mar 30  
> 01:52:08 ).
>
> I also tried HEAD minus f43fff3, nsfont.m (Stefan Monnier's change  
> to nsfont.m), and that wasn't the problem as far as I can see.