Variable: face-font-registry-alternatives

face-font-registry-alternatives is a customizable variable defined in faces.el.gz.

Value

(("gb2312.1980" "gb2312.80&gb8565.88" "gbk" "gb18030")
 ("jisx0208.1990" "jisx0208.1983" "jisx0208.1978")
 ("ksc5601.1989" "ksx1001.1992" "ksc5601.1987")
 ("muletibetan-2" "muletibetan-0"))

Documentation

Alist of alternative font registry names.

Each element has the form (REGISTRY ALTERNATIVE1 ALTERNATIVE2 ...). If fonts of registry REGISTRY can be loaded, font selection tries to find a best matching font among all fonts of registry REGISTRY, ALTERNATIVE1, ALTERNATIVE2, and etc.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 21.1.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/faces.el.gz
;; This is defined originally in xfaces.c.
(defcustom face-font-registry-alternatives
  (mapcar (lambda (arg) (mapcar 'purecopy arg))
  (if (featurep 'w32)
      '(("iso8859-1" "ms-oemlatin")
	("gb2312.1980" "gb2312" "gbk" "gb18030")
	("jisx0208.1990" "jisx0208.1983" "jisx0208.1978")
	("ksc5601.1989" "ksx1001.1992" "ksc5601.1987")
	("muletibetan-2" "muletibetan-0"))
    '(("gb2312.1980" "gb2312.80&gb8565.88" "gbk" "gb18030")
      ("jisx0208.1990" "jisx0208.1983" "jisx0208.1978")
      ("ksc5601.1989" "ksx1001.1992" "ksc5601.1987")
      ("muletibetan-2" "muletibetan-0"))))
  "Alist of alternative font registry names.
Each element has the form (REGISTRY ALTERNATIVE1 ALTERNATIVE2 ...).
If fonts of registry REGISTRY can be loaded, font selection
tries to find a best matching font among all fonts of registry
REGISTRY, ALTERNATIVE1, ALTERNATIVE2, and etc."
  :tag "Alternative font registries to try"
  :type '(repeat (repeat string))
  :version "21.1"
  :group 'font-selection
  :set (lambda (symbol value)
         (set-default symbol value)
         (internal-set-alternative-font-registry-alist value)))