Re: Multilingual Font Control

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:37:41 +0000
> From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com>
> 
> > Why do you think it will not work with font-lock?  I see no reason why
> > it shouldn't.
> 
> I thought that other faces would be defined by the time .emacs executed
> the expression.  Looking closer, it does seem that they are defined
> later, and presumably based on fontset-default by default.

Yes, of course.  Because that's the only thing that would make sense.

In general, Emacs will never change a font unless the default one
fails to support some feature (or explicitly told to do so by the
user), and with faces normally used by font-lock, that should never
happen.