Re: A funny bug in Emacs Unicode2/xft branch

[Leo]

On 2007-04-05, Kenichi Handa said:

> In article <address@hidden>, Leo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> > Anyway, it's a bug that Emacs doesn't show that character
>> > with a proper bold font even if you don't have that bold
>> > vesion.  Please show me from where I can get that font.  I
>> > want to try by myself.
>
>> In Fedora 6, you can just do "yum install dejavu-lgc-fonts" to install
>> it.
>
>> Otherwise, get it from here:
>
>> ,----[ http://dejavu.sourceforge.net ]
>> | The DejaVu LGC fonts are high-quality Latin/Greek/Cyrillic fonts
>> | based on Bitstream Vera fonts ((http://gnome.org/fonts/)).  Its
>> | purpose is to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining
>> | the original look and feel
>> `----
>
> The bold font I downloaded from
> http://dejavu.sourceforge.net doesn't contain a glyph for
> U+2500.  But, I tested with U+2010 (both normal and bold
> fonts contain a glyph for that character0, and found a bug.
> Could you please try with the attached
> emacs-unicode-2/src/fontset.c?  I have not yet committed it
> because the change is big and I think more comments should
> be attached.
>
> ---
> Kenichi Handa
> address@hidden

Thank you. Could you give me a test case? I use "‐", but it has bold
face even without the new fontset.c. So I can't see which bug it has
fixed.

I am still seeing square box for bold version of "─" with the new
fontset.c.

Regards,
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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)