bug#2994: Recent change to font.c:font_load_for_lface affects variable-pitch face in the modeline

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <f7ccd24b0904140907r7fe80098qbb0e11e435208663@mail.gmail.com>, 
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> Before that change, for (propertize " " 'face 'variable-pitch) Emacs
> was selecting

>     uniscribe:-outline-Arial-normal-normal-normal-sans-13-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
> (#x03)

> Now, it selects

>     
> uniscribe:-outline-FreeIdgSerif-normal-normal-normal-serif-13-*-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1
> (#x02)

As the family of your variable-pitch is "Sans Serif", if you
don't have a font of the exactly same family, what font is
actually selected for it depends on a font backend.  As my
change caused an extra font-sorting, perhaps it changed the
order of fonts that have the same score.

But, I installed a new change that avoid that extra
font-sorting.  Please try again.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org