bug#11450: 24.1.50; NS regression: fallback font used even when glyph available in primary font

[David Leatherman]

Hi Alan,

I hadn't noticed due to some workarounds but this bug appears to be fixed.

Great success!

Thanks,

David

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:

Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com> writes:

> For example, the "GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA" (sic) character is
> available in my favoured primary fonts (Pragmata Pro or Anonymous
> Pro), but Emacs 24 still displays the Times New Roman version of the
> character. It turns out that this mistake is also made by Emacs
> 23.3.1.
>
> Meanwhile, OS X's Textedit app renders that character correctly in any
> font which contains it.
>
> Strangely, if Emacs' default font is set to Menlo, the lambda
> character from that font *is* used. The same applies to the "EMPTY
> SET" character.

Hi, are either of you still seeing the problems with the incorrect fonts
being used? The entire font back-end for Emacs on OS X was replaced some
time ago, so hopefully if the problem wasn't sorted before then, that
should have done it.
--
Alan Third