Re: A funny bug in Emacs Unicode2/xft branch

[Leo]

Hello, Kenichi!

On 2007-03-29, Kenichi Handa said:

> In article <address@hidden>, Leo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> [GNU Emacs 23.0.0.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.8) of 2007-03-28]
>
>> I just noticed a very weird bug. Two exactly the same characters in a
>> buffer, one is correctly displayed and the other is displayed as
>> square as in the screen shot.
>
> Their faces are different.  The character not displayed
> correctly has the face gnus-summary-high-read that has bold
> property.  Do you have a bold version of "dejavu lgc sans
> mono"?

Yes
,----
|         character: d (100, #o144, #x64)
| preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
|        code point: 0x64
|            syntax: w  which means: word
|          category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0]) 
l:Latin r:Japanese roman
|       buffer code: #x64
|         file code: #x64 (encoded by coding system undecided-unix)
|           display: by this font (glyph code)
|      dejavu lgc sans 
mono:pixelsize=16:foundry=unknown:weight=bold:slant=r:width=normal (#x47)
| 
| Character code properties are not shown: customize what to show
| 
| There are text properties here:
|   auto-composed        t
|   face                 muse-emphasis-2
|   fontified            t
`----

>
> 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
`----

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