Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> [ FWIW, I don't think replacing those tofu chars with some "ugly default"
>> is a good option: it's more work with very little benefit if any, since
>> the problem still remains largely unchanged. ]
> FWIW, I do not agree with this.

I knid of guessed ;-)

> It is much better from a end-user viewpoint to see something they can
> decypher, even if it has a non-optimal rendering, than to see a hex
> code in a box.

[ What you describe is the "very little benefit" I referred to.  ]

I think most users won't be happy with the result in both cases,
so they'll still want to find a fix for the problem [ This is "the
problem still remains largely unchanged" that I referred to.  ]

>> - Does the problem only affect Emacs and not other applications? If so
>> why?  If not, then what do other applications do about it?
> This problem affects all applications.  If happens whenever an application
> tries to display a character for which the font in use has no glyph. What
> they do varies, most display a question mark in a box, or an empty box.

I have seen several questions about Emacs showing tofu where the user
points out that such-and-such other application displays that same text
just fine on the same system.

So, I know that it sometimes "only affects Emacs".


        Stefan