bug#52493: 29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes default face rendered wrong

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.12.2021 16:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc:52493@debbugs.gnu.org
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<dgutov@yandex.ru>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:01:26 +0300
> >
> > > Thanks.  I think this means that Emacs 29 on master now rejects the
> > > Inconsolata_dz font for some reason, or thinks it finds a better
> > > match.
> > Despite 'emacs -Q -fn Inconsolata_dz' having the intended effect?
> Yes.  The -fn argument forces Emacs to use the specified font, whereas
> :family is much more general and doesn't force the use of a specific
> font.
>
> > > The fact that it picks a condensed family is probably
> > > secondary; the main issue here is that the font family you requested
> > > is rejected.
> > >
> > > Does that family have the regular weight?  If not, maybe that's the
> > > reason it is rejected, and you need to also require some specific
> > > :weight value in your set-face-attribute call.
> > Although yes, something to that effect seems to be going on. But
> > specifying different values of :weight doesn't help either (regulal,
> > medium, light, bold, extra-bold).
> If playing with :weight didn't help, what other evidence did you see
> that this issue is related?

Related to not being able to select that family (as opposed to 
rendering it wrong, for instance).

I also tried different scenarios which seemed to help (choose another 
family, and a different weight, and then this one), but apparently they 
ended up selecting a different family ultimately, rather than the one I 
specified.