[Pkg-fonts-devel] #1029710: Noto Rashi Hebrew in emacs-gtk

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi,

I opened bug #1029710 about Emacs using the font Noto Rashi font for
Hebrew by default.

Now, suppose that the basic issue is that this font happens to be
this first Noto font alphabetically that provides Hebrew code points (or
whatever).

I suppose that there are workarounds at various levels for this issue. I
saw similar issues. For instance, there was an older issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2113077
I think it no longer applies here:

$ fc-match serif:lang=he
NotoSansHebrew-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans Hebrew" "Regular"

(And that was after I removed various other fonts: culmus, freefont and
linuxlibertine)

But then: why do I need to work around this issue? Rashi is not a script
that adds new code points. It is basically a different script of Hebrew:
Most of the letters are the same, some are somewhat different and a few
are very different. Why is it needed in the Noto ("no tofu") font?

Given that fonts-noto-core is typically installed on a desktop system:
any chance to remove the Rashi fonts from it? Is there a better place to
ask this question?

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