Re: sans-serif name change

[Jason Rumney]

Miles Bader wrote:

>   (set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil :family "Sans-Serif")
> 
> does not (it uses some random font instead); using "Sans Serif" does
> work with set-face-attribute.
> 
> So it looks like there's a bug somewhere (but we should fix that, not
> kludge around it).

My guess is that the `-' in Sans-Serif is being treated as a separator
character, and causes Emacs to look for a font called Serif with the
foundry Sans, or something similar.