Re: Incorrect glyph info in describe-char

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 10:33:06 +0530
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>  You did that only for a single character SHIN?  But the image shows
>  that the entire string is displayed by a font that is not DejaVu Sans
>  Mono.  And at least on my system, DejaVu Sans Mono doesn't have glyphs
>  for the Hebrew block, so when I tell Emacs to use DejaVu Sans Mono as
>  the default font, the Hebrew letters are displayed using a different
>  font.
> 
>  If you don't apply the text property, do you see the Hebrew text
>  displayed by DejaVu Sans Mono, or does Emacs use a different font for
>  it?  And what does describe-char say about that if you don't apply the
>  text property?
> 
>  > Apparently, this is what is causing the issue.
> 
>  It could be, but I don't see how this could happen, by just looking at
>  the code involved in this.  I'm probably missing something.
> 
> It is "emacs -Q". My default font is DejaVuSans Mono. Hence H is displayed 
> using the same. The Hebrew
> text is using Linux Libertine Display O. For printing, I needed text with 
> font variation. So I applied the text
> property for weight and slant - though it didn't change the appearance. After 
> that, desc-char starts reporting
> as mentioned in OP. 

Thanks, but this answers only part of my questions.  Please also
answer the following:

  . did you put the text property only on the single character SHIN or
    on the whole Hebrew text?
  . what does describe-char report for the SHIN character before you
    put the text property?

TIA