bug#9648: 24.0.90; popup-menu doesn't work on Lucid Emacs

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:52:33 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> I'm home.  I verified it reproduces with the latest Emacs 24.0.90
>> (I built it minutes ago) on Fedora 14.  Here's a screenshot:

>> http://www.jpl.org/tmp/Screenshot.png

>> This happens with `emacs -Q', but setting the `Emacs*popup*font'
>> resource with any font that provides ASCII characters solves it.
>> Though it might not be an Emacs bug, I suspect there's something
>> that leads Emacs to choose a wrong font when there's no X resource
>> for `Emacs*popup*font'.

> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)

> I briefly tried to reproduce this problem in Emacs 29, but seem to be
> unable to.  Are you still seeing this issue in recent Emacs versions?

Though I'm unable to try it again now instantly (as I no longer
use the Lucid Emacs), I believe the problem has gone away early
in this decade, and I verified no such a problem to be in the
recent GTK Emacs.

Thank you for following it up.