bug#58538: anti-alias fix results in ugly scaled fonts

[Po Lu]

Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> writes:

> Hi Stephen, can you post screenshots of what you currently get and what
> you expected?
>
> I wonder if the difference has something to do with the font registry.
>
> With 
>
>   /usr/new/bin/emacs -Q -fn "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" --eval 
> "(buffer-face-set 'variable-pitch)"
>
> or
>
>   /usr/new/bin/emacs -Q -fn "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-jisx0201.1976-*" 
> --eval "(buffer-face-set 'variable-pitch)"
>
> I get
>
>  
>
>
> With
>
>   /usr/new/bin/emacs -Q -fn "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*" --eval 
> "(buffer-face-set 'variable-pitch)"
>
> or
>
>   /usr/new/bin/emacs -Q -fn "-*-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" --eval 
> "(buffer-face-set 'variable-pitch)"
>
> I get
>
>  
>
>
> (This is on Debian Bullseye, running i3.)
>
> mike

Well yes, you will get a different font depending on what character set
you ask for.

The ``registry'' is technically the organization that has registered the
character set with the X Consortium, but that age is long over.  In
Emacs, it in effect means the character set.