On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 6:48 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> The uniscribe backend will not be used unless Emacs is started with it
> being in the list of backends to register.
That's what I thought.
> Every font that can use Uniscribe can also use HarfBuzz. So this is
> not a problem, and users have no reason to wish to use Uniscribe when
> they restore their sessions.
That's an argument to remove support for Uniscribe. I imagine that, if wehaven't done that, it's likely because there could be some problematic
font that would behave better with Uniscribe than Harfbuzz, isn't it?
> Moreover, unless Emacs is started with Uniscribe (via the -xrm
> command-line switch, or via the Registry), it will be unable to use
> Uniscribe even if we tell it via the frameset.
Again, that was my understanding.
All in all, I think I would prefer to keep font-backend and filter it out
on restoring when/if necessary; but I don't have a compelling use case,
so I'll just filter it out entirely. We can always change it later if the
need arises.
I'll commit it ASAP.
Thanks,
Juanma