Re: how to promote the new font backend?

[joakim]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden wrote:
>> Recently I reinstalled my primary workstation with fc9. I noticed lots
>> of weird font issues with emacs.
>>   
>
> What kinds of issues? They might indicate a bug.

- I wasnt able to increase the fontsize beyond a certain limit using
  incdec-buffer-face-height.

- reading mail in gnus, certain characters became octal escapes rather
  than the swedish characters I'm used to seeing.  
  

>
>> How do we provide nice font defaults for new users?
>>   
>
> The default font if XFT is configured is monospace-12. Most fontconfig
> installations will map this to a modern font capable of using
> antialiasing. Does your installation fail to map it, or map it to a
> bitmap font?
>
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Joakim Verona