Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Then I really don't understand the goal here, because I think the
> problems people report are never about "the major fonts" or the
> "usual" scripts -- those are well covered by our default fontset.

I was just thinking about listing fonts like DejaVu Sans and Noto (with
a wide support for many scripts), not smaller language-specific fonts.
And Symbola?

> Before we implement something like that, we should be reasonably
> certain it will not annoy most users (not only power users).  It is
> entirely legitimate to leave some of the Unicode blocks uncovered by
> the fonts you have installed, and having Emacs display warnings about
> that might be annoying.  OTOH, such a feature must be turned on by
> default, otherwise it will not do its job.  So knowing whether users
> will welcome this is important, IMO.

We display a button in warning buffers saying "Click here to switch the
warning off", so I think the annoyance factor would be somewhat limited.

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