Re: Pasting from X clipboard sometimes uses different font

[Jason Rumney]

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > For example, with U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS. If I type one in an 
> > Emacs buffer, I get the character from my normal font:
> >
> > *font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-*-*
> >
> > whereas if I have one on the X clipboard and paste it (e.g. 
> > button-2), then I get a wider character, but if I go into hexl-mode I 
> > can see it's the same character code, though annoyingly it's not on 
> > the baseline (so there's also a bug in whatever font is being used, 
> > but I'm not sure which font is being used).

Rather than going into hexl-mode, try pressing C-u C-x = on both 
characters and compare the results.
I suspect that one of these is coming from the mule-unicode-0200-3fff 
character set, and the other from some other character set so uses a 
different font.

If you have a better matched iso10646-1 font on your system, you can 
define a fontset that explicitly includes that font for the 
mule-unicode-* charsets. See the section "Defining fontsets" in the 
Emacs manual for more details.