Re: set-fontset-font is slow if the fontset is specified by a long name

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Unfortunately even the long format can't identify the
>     fontset directly.  I admit that this is a mistake of the
>     design.  The basic problem is that a fontset name can
>     contain '*'.

> Is there any good reason to use a fontset with * in its name?  If not,
> we could say "that's not allowed" and make it an error to try to
> create one.

A fontset can be created just by specifying a fontset name
containing '*'.  In that case, we generate a fontname for
ASCII font of that fontset by replacing CHARSET_REGISTRY and
CHARSET_ENCODING part of the fontset name to "iso8859-1",
and resolving that name by x-resolve-font-name.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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