Re: Monospace font bug?

[Chong Yidong]

David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:

> No. but is it desirable to?  If emacs says "monospace"
> to the OS, and the OS returns something usable (see below), should
> emacs second guess it?   The distros with ttf-georgewilliams packages
> seem to be aware of the issue and are fixing it by removing or
> renaming the font in favour of the de-facto standard "monospace"
> virtual font name
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gw-fonts-ttf/+bug/95357/comments/6

That is a good argument.

I'll add an entry about this to etc/PROBLEMS; we can leave the rest of
Emacs unchanged.