GNU bug report logs - #2526
NS: font names have become case-sensitive

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Packages: ns, emacs;

Reported by: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:00:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 24.0.92

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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Report forwarded to bug-submit-list <at> lists.donarmstrong.com, Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>:
bug#2526; Package emacs. (Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:00:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: NS: font names have become case-sensitive
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:54:01 -0500

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It seems that in NS (on OS X), font names have become case-sensitive  
since Emacs 22 (Carbon at least).  Setting a face to use family  
"lucida grande" or "monaco" doesn't work - it results in frames full  
of empty boxes (because the font can't be loaded, I presume).  I also  
found that the face, if you do (customize-face 'default), have  
their :family attributes set to "Monotype_Sorts".  This font doesn't  
seem to exist on my system.

Given that people have faces configured in their custom-file, I don't  
think a sudden case-sensitivity is going to make our users happy,  
whatever good reasons for this design choice there might exist.

(I can try to write a bug report if the above isn't sufficiently  
detailed.)
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bug reassigned from package `emacs' to `emacs,ns'. Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:20:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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bug#2526; Package emacs,ns. (Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:10:19 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 2526-quiet <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug#2526
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:04:03 -0400

Some discussion at

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-06/msg00345.html
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 2526-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2526: NS: font names have become case-sensitive
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:10:43 -0500

Version: 24.0.92

IIUC, NS font names should no longer be case sensitive.

Ref http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-06/msg00365.html
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:24:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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