Re: Font in mode line

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.11.2013 um 19:47 schrieb Francesco Mazzoli:

>        xft:-Misc-Fixed-normal-normal-normal-ja-13-*-*-*-c-120-iso10646-1 
> (#x43)
> 
> While the `mode-line-buffer-id' face (referenced in the same screen given by 
> `C-u C-x =') lists
> 
>    Font: #<font-object -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-
> iso8859-1>

These two fonts are the same. Their foundry is "[Mm]isc" (not determined, could 
be X Consortium/X.Org), their family name is the same: "[Ff]ixed". Their weight 
is also the same, normal  is medium. What makes a difference is the value of 
"ja" (for Japanese) in the field for additional typographic styles. This makes 
sense in combination with the ISO 10646-1 (or Unicode) font encoding. It is 
possible that this setting, "ja", reserves a bit too big cells for the 
characters, cells into which Japanese could fit (which a bit bigger than those 
for Latin scripts). The setting for average width (120 vs. 80, i.e. wide vs. 
compact) confirms this. GNU Emacs 24.x seems to love Japanese…

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