Re: Observation on sizing up a rose

[Tomas Nordin]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:49:11 +0100, Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> 
>>>>>> said:
>
>     Tomas> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>     >> Xft, yuck :-)
>     >> 
>     >> What font is used to display that character? 'C-u C-x =' with point on
>     >> it will pop up a buffer with that information.
>
>     Tomas>     
> xfthb:-Free-Symbola-normal-normal-semicondensed-*-15-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 
> (#x1F7F)
>
> Thanks. I can reproduce this, but it works correctly on emacs-27 with
> cairo support enabled rather than xft, so Iʼd suggest an upgrade.

Thanks back. It doesn't feel like an emergency exactly but why not. I
normally just build with ./configure, make and make install. Do you have
the command line configure option to just enable cairo support in place
of xft. What other impact may it have (benefits / drawbacks)? And of
curiosity, do we know why this is reproduced with xft but not with
cairo.