Re: 23.0.60; Large Fonts with latin-1 characters inconsistent in size

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

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> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> Editing a file in AUCTeX, I see the ugly screenshot shown below.

Forgot the screenshot: here it is:

> C-u C-u C-x = on the (correctly sized_ character before the
> problematic one delivers
>
>         character: r (114, #o162, #x72)
> preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
>        code point: 0x72
>            syntax: w  which means: word
>          category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])
>                  l:Latin r:Japanese roman
>       buffer code: #x72
>         file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-1-unix
>           display: by this font (glyph code)
>      -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1 (#x72)
>
> Character code properties are not shown: customize what to show
>
> There are text properties here:
>   auto-composed        t
>   charset              iso-8859-1
>   face                 (font-latex-slide-title-face)
>   fontified            t
>
> [back]
>
>
> The same on the following (too small) Umlaut delivers:
>
>         character: ä (228, #o344, #xe4)
> preferred charset: gb18030 (GB18030)
>        code point: 0x81308A31
>            syntax: w  which means: word
>          category: j:Japanese l:Latin
>       buffer code: #xC3 #xA4
>         file code: #xE4 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-1-unix)
>           display: by this font (glyph code)
>      -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1 (#xE4)
>
> Character code properties are not shown: customize what to show
>
> There are text properties here:
>   auto-composed        t
>   charset              iso-8859-1
>   face                 (font-latex-slide-title-face)
>   fontified            t
>
> [back]
>
> The "code point" on the too small character looks somewhat ludicrous.
> You can also see that apparently the same font is supposedly used.
>
> I am pretty sure this did not happen pre-unicode2.  So what gives here?
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
>  of 2008-02-08 on lisa
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
> configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' 
> '--without-toolkit-scroll-bars''
>
> 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: en_US.UTF-8
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: PDFLaTeX
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>   shell-dirtrack-mode: t
>   reftex-mode: t
>   TeX-PDF-mode: t
>   server-mode: t
>   desktop-save-mode: t
>   tooltip-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-compression-mode: t
>   line-number-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> <return> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> n n n <return> 
> SPC E E B C-M-e y e s <return> q <return> SPC n n n 
> E q <return> SPC n n q g p <return> SPC E SPC SPC SPC 
> SPC SPC SPC E B C-M-e y e s <return> q <return> SPC 
> SPC SPC q g <return> SPC E SPC q <return> SPC g q g 
> p p p p <return> SPC q g q y <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
> <next> <prior> <next> <next> <prior> <up> <up> <up> 
> <up> <up> <up> <up> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> 
> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <left> C-u 
> C-u C-x = M-x r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return>
>
> Recent messages:
> Checking new news...done
> Are you sure you want to quit reading news? (y or n) 
> Wrote /home/dak/.newsrc
> Saving /home/dak/.newsrc.eld...
> Saving file /home/dak/.newsrc.eld...
> Wrote /home/dak/.newsrc.eld
> Saving /home/dak/.newsrc.eld...done
> Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help.
> Char: r (114, #o162, #x72) point=4424 of 9743 (45%) column=36
> Making completion list...
>
> -- 
> David Kastrup
>
>
>

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David Kastrup