Re: font problems with the latest master in MacOS helvetia is used and not DejaVi Mono as in emacs28

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "UB" == Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

>> What about starting Emacs as

>> emacs -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono"

>> ?

> Does not work neither.

> emacs -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono" -q 

> However does work. So something is odd here in 29, while it works in 28.

When I run 

 customize-faces
 default
 return 

I see, so Helvetica is set, but I cannot change this setting, I mean I can 
change the name to DejaVu Sans Mono but it has no effect. 

This looks like a bug of sorts to me.


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