Bug#1109080: Improve the default font for emacs such that it can distin
From =?UTF-8?Q?Peter_M=C3=BCller?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 11 01:40:01 2025
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Package: emacs-gtk
Version: 1:28.2+1-15+deb12u4
Open emacs-gtk and type in the following into the scratch buffer:
small Epsilon U+03B5: ε
straight Epsilon U+03F5: ϵ
small Theta U+03B8: θ
script Theta U+03D1: ϑ
small Pi U+03C0: π
small omega Pi (a variant of small Pi looking like small Omega) U+03D6: ϖ small Rho U+03C1: ρ
tailed small Rho U+03F1: ϱ
small Phi U+03C6: φ
technical small Phi U+03D5: ϕ
On my system, I see the same glyphs for each pair of the variants despite the underlying unicode positions being different; cf. the attachment.
M-x describe-font yields this:
name (opened by): -GOOG-Noto Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
full name: Noto Sans Mono:pixelsize=13:foundry=GOOG:weight=normal:slant=normal:width=normal:scalable=true
file name: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoSansMono-Regular.ttf
size: 13
height: 18
baseline-offset: 0
relative-compose: 0
default-ascent: 0
ascent: 14
descent: 4
average-width: 8
space-width: 8
max-width: 8
I kindly ask the the font itself is repaired (in this case, please reassign the bug report), or that emacs uses a different font by default.