Re: Problem with glyphs with face-id over 128 in unicode-2 emacs

[Kim F. Storm]

Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:

> Suppose that we have more than 128 faces defined, and that we want to
> make, say, all "\^O"s be displayed as "*"s with the face
> `face-with-id-138'; we would try to do this:
>
>   (aset standard-display-table ?\^O
>       (vector (make-glyph-code ?* 'face-with-id-138)))
>
> where, of course, face-with-id-138 is a face for which:
>
>   (face-id 'face-with-id-138)
>      ==> 138.
>
> Then we will notice that the "\^O"s get displayed using the face with
> face-id=10 instead (by the way: here (face-id 'highlight) is 10)...

Thank you for the very detailed bug report.

I am working on fixing this -- it requires some changes at the C level,
and it is not as straight-forward as I would have thought.

Stay tuned!


> Any ideas of workarounds - besides defining the faces that will be
> used for glyphs as early as possible?

Not really...

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