Re: Configuring fontsets with `unicode-fonts` [Was: Re: Should minibuffer prompt be made intangible by default?]

[Alexis]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Installing fonts doesn't necessarily resolve the fontset 
> configuration problems, especially since no package can know 
> what other fonts are available on the end-user system.

Sorry, i'm not sure you understand what the `unicode-fonts` 
package does? It doesn't provide fonts itself, but configures 
fontsets to use fonts on a users' system for maximum Unicode 
coverage. As the package's README.md says:

   font mappings via fontsets are a bit difficult to 
   configure. In addition, the default setup does not always pick 
   the most legible fonts. As the manual warns, the choice of 
   font actually displayed for a non-ASCII character is "somewhat 
   random". 

   The Unicode standard provides a way to organize font mappings: 
   it divides character ranges into logical groups called 
   "blocks". This library configures Emacs in a Unicode-friendly 
   way by providing mappings from 

       each Unicode block  ---to--->   a font with good coverage 

   and makes the settings available via the customization 
   interface. 

   This library provides font mappings for 233 of the 255 blocks 
   in the Unicode 8.0 standard which are public and have 
   displayable characters. It assumes that 6 Latin blocks are 
   covered by the default font. 16/255 blocks are not mapped to 
   any known font.

(However, the README.md /does/ suggests some fonts for users to 
download to facilitate the `unicode-fonts` package's work.)


Alexis.