Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Gregory Heytings]

> > But could Emacs be more helpful here?  That is, could we somehow, 
> > unobtrusively, tell the users this when Emacs is trying to display a 
> > character that it has no fonts for?
>
> That box with the hex code is our way of telling the users that.  What 
> else can be better, given that there could be more than one such 
> character?

A suggestion: would it not be better to include a version of GNU Unifont 
in Emacs?  Instead of a box with a hex code, users would see what the 
character is.  It is bitmapped, so users would at the same time see that 
the character is missing in their installed fonts.