Re: which hebrew fonts are chosen? Changed after some private truetype fonts were added

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 21:11:06 +0000
> 
> However I just installed some private true type font
> 
> into /usr/share/fonts/private
> basically some hebrew fonts based on my handwriting.
> Run sudo fc-cache -f
> restart emacs but *then*
> the font used for hebrew is my just installed handwritten ttf?
> ,----
> |              position: 21 of 22 (91%), column: 3
> |             character: ם‎ (displayed as ם‎) (codepoint 1501, #o2735, #x5dd)
> |     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
> | code point in charset: 0x05DD
> |                script: hebrew
> |                syntax: w    which means: word
> |              category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong)
> |              to input: type "M" with hebrew-phonetic-qwerty input method
> |           buffer code: #xD7 #x9D
> |             file code: #xD7 #x9D (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
> |               display: by this font (glyph code)
> |     xft:-unknown-uwehebhand-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 
> (#x68)
> | 
> | Character code properties: customize what to show
> |   name: HEBREW LETTER FINAL MEM
> |   general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
> |   decomposition: (1501) ('ם')
> | 
> | There are text properties here:
> |   fontified            t
> `----
> 
> What on earth did happen?

Could it be that your font back-end prefers fonts in
/usr/share/fonts/private to those in other directories?

> How can I avoid this behavior?

You can customize the definition of fontset-default to use DejaVu Sans
Mono for the Hebrew block.  See the documentation of set-fontset-font.