Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Ilya Zakharevich <address@hidden> writes:
>>  Perhaps, we must introduce a variable, for instance,
>>  `unreliable-font-registry-encoding-name-list, use
>>  XListFontsWithInfo only to find a font whose
>>  registry-encoding matches with this variable.

> OK, if you do this, please put '-cronix-*' fonts there.  It is a
> horrible thing what they did.

Then, could you please try the first method I wrote like this:
        (setq face-ignored-fonts '("-cronix"))

>>  > BTW, I agree that the fontset management could be made simpler (I think
>>  > it's not just a question of the doc being dense or incomplete).
>>  > Especially in your case, there should be some way to say something like:
>>  
>>  >    (fontset-prefer-font 'cyrillic-iso8859-5 "-etl-fixed-*-iso8859-5")
>>  
>>  Is that intention different from this?
>>  
>>  (dolist (fontset (fontest-list))
>>    (set-fontset-font fontset 'cyrillic-iso8859-5
>>                  '("etl-fixed" . "iso8859-5")))

> Would not work if there is no etl-fixed fonts on the site?

In such a case, Emacs tries to find fonts ignoring that
foundry/family spec.  So, you must use face-ignored-fonts
as above.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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