bug#3319: 23.0.93; Default font

[Francis Wright]

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

When I start Emacs 23.0.93 normally, it starts up with the default
font set to Sanvito Pro Subhead (regular, 10 point), which is not what
I expected and is almost unreadable in this context. This is the first
time I have run Emacs 23 on this computer; previously I was running
Emacs 22.3. When I start Emacs 23.0.93 with the -Q option, it starts
with Courier New as default font, which is fine (as a default). I
think the problem is that I had this in my .emacs file:

(custom-set-faces
 '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "white" :foreground "black"
:inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil
:slant normal :weight normal :height 98 :width normal :family
"outline-lucida sans typewriter"))))
 '(woman-italic-face ((t (:foreground "red" :slant italic)))))

I think Emacs 23.0.93 is misinterpreting this default font setting,
which worked fine with Emacs 22. Erasing this customization seems to
have solved the problem but there seems to be a potential font
incompatibility when upgrading from Emacs 22. I think I saw something
similar when I upgraded to Emacs 23.0.92 on my work computer, but it
was not such a problem and I just reset the font using the Set Default
Font menu item.

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In GNU Emacs 23.0.93.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-05-02 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENG
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Emacs-Lisp

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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