Re: Font in mode line

[Francesco Mazzoli]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> That's why I said to type "M-x font-lock-mode RET" -- this turns OFF
> font lock.  If you don't do that, font-lock removes the font text
> properties from the inserted text, and you don't see them.  Please
> don't skip anything in those steps, they are all important.

Oh, sorry, I did follow your steps but while trying I must have turned font-
lock off and then on again.

So, with font-lock off, I find out that the used font (for example for the 
buffer-id) is:

                  display: by this font (glyph code)
        xft:-Misc-Fixed-normal-normal-normal-ja-13-*-*-*-c-120-iso10646-1 
(#x43)

While the `mode-line-buffer-id' face (referenced in the same screen given by 
`C-u C-x =') lists

    Font: #<font-object -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-
iso8859-1>

So the two seem to be different.  If I set the font explicitly using a 
string from `xfontsel', for example

    (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-buffer-id nil :font "-misc-fixed-medium-
r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1")

I still get the same glyph when actually inspecting the font with `C-u C-x 
='.

What are the circumstances where the font for some text is different from 
the font specified by its face?

Thanks again,
Francesco