bug#25216: 26.0.50 [regression]; Curly quotes are not found in some sizes of ‘Terminus’ font

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
> Cc: 25216@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:14:44 +0300
> 
>    (set-fontset-font "-*-Terminus-*-fontset-startup"
>                      '(0 . #x3FFFFF)
>                      "Terminus")
> 
> Looks very much like (setq a a), but works like a charm!

Are you sure this doesn't get in the way when you want to display a
character not supported by that font?

And I still don't understand why you need that.  AFAICS, Emacs
explicitly tries to use the default font for punctuation and symbol
characters before falling back on looking up other fonts.