bug#9646: 24.0.90; Daemon does not heed desired font

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eythan Weg <eythanweg@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:09:37 -0400
> 
> I start emacs --daemon  with the .emacs content just this:
> 
> (setq initial-frame-alist '((font . "DejaVu Sans")))
> 
> Now visit a file with hebrew text.  The hebrew chars are shown using
> freefont.  Do the same without --daemon and the font is chosen
> correctly.

The daemon does not display its initial frame, so you are customizing
a frame that is never shown.

Why do you request this font only for the initial frame?  If you do
the same with default-frame-alist, does it do what you want, both in
daemon mode and normal invocation?