RE: Split `simple.el'?

[Drew Adams]

> > > Splitting a file to circumvent such a bug sounds like a bad idea (at
> > > least until we understand enough of the problem to decide that it's too
> > > hard to fix or something).
> >
> > Clearly we should fix his display bug.
> 
> I don't think there's a display bug.  Drew has a very large number of
> fonts installed, so searching for a font that supports some character
> can take a long time, if none of them support that character.
> 
> IOW, it's a system configuration bug: with such a large number of
> fonts, one should have at least one font that covers each Unicode
> codepoint, and one might need to customize their fontsets to find the
> fonts more quickly.
> 
> One possibility is to install the GNU Unifont, which AFAIK supports
> the entire Unicode range, albeit with glyphs that are in many areas
> simply ugly.

In the past you've told people with similar problems to
install Symbola.  I did that long ago.  Clearly just
installing it is not enough.

Now you suggest I add font GNU Unifont.  I just did that -
downloaded unifont-10.0.07.ttf, unifont_csur-10.0.07.ttf,
and unifont_csur-10.0.07.ttf from
http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html, and added them to my
Fonts folder.

No change - same 2 minutes to show simple.el.