Re: recent emacs font problems?

[Richard Stallman]

    > I cant really grasp the problem that lead to this change from the
    > comment above, so if anyone can describe a case for the original
    > problem, I can try and make this work.


    Here is what RMS said about the exact same fix some days ago; please
    read the previous articles in this thread for a discussion on this
    subject:

    RMS> That is not correct.  It would bring back a bug I fixed recently.  I
    RMS> think it was the following bug.

We need to understand what's going on in the two different cases
enough to figure out a way to distinguish them and do the right thing
for both.