bug#68042: 30.0.50; `face-font' returns nil after adding remap relative for fontset

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Hanwen Guo <g.hanwen@outlook.com>
>> CC: "68042@debbugs.gnu.org" <68042@debbugs.gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 06:43:46 +0000
>>
>> > If you replace all instances of :fontset above with :font, face-font
>> will not return nil.
>>
>> Actually, if you pass the fontset through the `:font' attribute, only the 
>> ASCII font from the fontset is
>> used.
>
> Yes, because the faces that are exposed to Lisp are always the faces
> used for characters supported by the "ASCII font" of a face.  For
> other characters, Emacs creates internally a separate face, which is
> not exposed to Lisp, and determines its font from the fontset in
> effect, merging the other relevant face attributes to produce a face
> as similar as possible to the one used for characters covered by the
> "ASCII font".
>
>> This applies to both `set-face-attribute' and `face-remap-add-relative'. 
>> AFAIU, I think when it
>> comes to the face attributes, the fontset feature is more like a way to set 
>> different font for diferent
>> character sets, making it able to "display the whole range of characters 
>> that Emacs supports" for a
>> given face, since setting the `:family' attribute or assigning a single font 
>> to `:font' would suffice for
>> setting font only for ASCII characters. So the case is, either the `:font' 
>> attribute needs to consider the
>> full fontset, or the whole fontset feature is, as you said, "obsolete".
>
> Then please explain in more detail what you are trying to achieve, and
> why.  The code snippet you presented makes it hard to guess, since it
> defines a face with a special fontset, and then remaps the 'default'
> face to that face.  Why would you need to do that, instead of simply
> customizing the default-fontset or setting the :fontset attribute of
> the 'default' face?
>
> The technical reason for what you see is that face-remapping creates
> an anonymous face with the specified attributes, and Emacs doesn't
> support the :fontset attribute for anonymous faces.  But since I don't
> really understand why you use face-remap-add-relative, I cannot tell
> whether this is a problem or how to solve it for your needs.

More information was requested, but none was given within 23 weeks, so
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