Timeline for How do I set up font fallback in a robust way?
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| Dec 6, 2021 at 9:42 | comment | added | Arch Stanton |
Have you got (set-language-environment "UTF-8") in your config? That makes my Emacs not use available glyphs when use-default-font-for-symbols is nil.
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| Jan 10, 2020 at 20:35 | comment | added | Clément | @GenaU I may be misunderstanding, but Emacs does check; just not every font, only the ones that appear in a fontset. | |
| Jan 8, 2020 at 10:57 | comment | added | GenaU |
I cannot remember where I read it, but I believe Eli Zaretskii responded to a similar question somewhere. You are thinking about fontset in the wrong way. Emacs does not actually check for every character it displays whether a font knows how to display it or not. That would be too computationally intensive. So there is no "fallback" mechanism per se. You should set your default font and then modify the default fontset manually in certain ranges to display using different fonts. This procedure is manual or maybe the package unicode can help.
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| Jan 11, 2019 at 19:12 | answer | added | Alexandr Karbivnichyi | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 30, 2017 at 12:50 | comment | added | Ista | @kuli You are too pessimistic. See github.com/cpitclaudel/monospacifier | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 13:02 | comment | added | user17303 | afterthought: a UTF-8 font with a full character set should remove your problem entirely (eg. GNU Unifont), and when there's the choice between fancy font and the glyphs required, I'd choose the latter. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 5:28 | comment | added | user17303 | I have a thought which not really solves your problem, but –– if you need the mathematical etc. symbols for theoremes and scientific documents, why don't you use TeX and AucTeX for that? It would make hassling with X (or Mac or Windows, depending on what you run) font fallbacks unnecessary and provide you with high quality documents and snippets (eg. for org mode). | |
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