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Invalid character in font name #7

Open galdor opened 5 months ago

galdor commented 5 months ago

Having an asterisk (U+002A) in the name of the font ("Drafting Mono") makes it unusable in Emacs ("Invalid font name") and in application using X11 logical font descriptions[1]. The '' character is explicitely not allowed (the same way as '?', '-', ',' and '"').

[1] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/XLFD/xlfd.html