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| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2020-09-20 17:18:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> | 2020-09-20 17:18:16 -0700 |
| commit | 7a5132954b89736001351d7e03a72beed9372c84 (patch) | |
| tree | c7c375465796962d4a2964779be7d5bf5e11c985 /etc/PROBLEMS | |
| parent | 2e33c3fd8d77bc34d27464e2ae0926d1c8e5184d (diff) | |
| parent | 02a31c9632693b882e46b6dbdd2653297bbfdead (diff) | |
| download | emacs-7a5132954b89736001351d7e03a72beed9372c84.tar.gz | |
Merge from origin/emacs-27
02a31c9632 (origin/emacs-27) Minor improvement in the ELisp manual's ...
f750def778 Mention in PROBLEMS the problems with fonts and Uniscribe
082d8a21b1 Minor copyedits in 'line-height' documentation
5b23393bcc ; * src/frame.c (syms_of_frame) <make-pointer-invisible>: ...
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diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 67537f6e33b..dada27fa55c 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -967,6 +967,19 @@ index 5504171..431adf8 100644 If you can't modify that file directly, copy it to the directory ~/.m17n.d/ (create it if it doesn't exist), and apply the patch. +** On MS-Windows, some characters display as boxes with hex code. + +Also, some characters could display with wrong fonts. + +This can happen if Emacs was compiled without HarfBuzz support, and/or +if the HarfBuzz DLLs are not available at run time. Emacs will then +fall back to the Uniscribe as its shaping engine; Uniscribe was +deprecated by Microsoft, and sometimes fails to display correctly when +modern fonts are used, such as Noto Emoji or Ebrima. + +The solution is to switch to a configuration that uses HarfBuzz as its +shaping engine, where these problems don't exist. + * Internationalization problems ** M-{ does not work on a Spanish PC keyboard. |