Re: hebrew: bold face odd when using the monospace font.

[Uwe Brauer]

   > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Uwe Brauer <address@hidden> wrote:

   > That it is your setting of DejaVu Sans Mono that gives you nice
   > results for Hebrew. Since this font has no Hebrew coverage, any
   > results for Hebrew, nice or otherwise, come from programs substituting
   > another font.

   > […]

   > So here you are: you get DejaVu Sans, not DejaVu Sans Mono, for Hebrew.

Yep but strangely enough for no hebrew I obtain

,----
|              position: 36166 of 36174 (100%), column: 0
|             character: A (displayed as A) (codepoint 65, #o101, #x41)
|     preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
| code point in charset: 0x41
|                script: latin
|                syntax: w      which means: word
|              category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), a:ASCII, l:Latin, 
r:Roman
|              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 41" or "C-x 8 RET LATIN CAPITAL LETTER 
A"
|           buffer code: #x41
|             file code: #x41 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
|               display: by this font (glyph code)
|     xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans 
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x24)
`----



   > Why Emacs gives you Linux Biolinum Keyboard O for bold is not clear.
   > You might need to read about fontsets:

   > 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Fontsets.html#Fontsets

thanks


   > The unicode-fonts library provides a more user-friendly interface for
   > configuring font fallback, but may slow down Emacs startup
   > considerably:

   > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnicodeFonts



thanks