Re: Continuing Font Problems: Some XFT fonts not using XFT engine?

[Jason Rumney]

Miles Bader wrote:
> This isn't such a problem for most apps, which only understand one of
> the two types of fonts, but it may terribly confuse Emacs, which can
> handle both simultaneously.
>   

There should be an order imposed on font backends. So one backend should 
always take precedence over the other, and duplicate font names should 
not matter. It used to work that way, but it seems from reports of this 
type that something has changed recently.