Hi Jason,

"Jason F. McBrayer" wrote:
>> I still will give it a try for a couple of days. But, as of now, nothing
>> beats Consolas yet...
>
> I /think/ that in X, emacs will select the closest font it can find to
> in order to get the characters it needs. However, in Windows, it will
> only use the default font (or whatever is explicitly specified for the
> face), even if that font is missing characters. The only workaround
> I've found for buffers that need a lot of Unicode characters is to use
> DejaVu Sans Mono. Consolas is very nice, but its Unicode coverage is
> not good.

That could explain why I was sure that I did get a bit more representable
characters when using Consolas under Ubuntu: they came from another font.

Thanks for the explanation...

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban


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