Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> A simpler solution would be to make the defaults work better.  Why not
> have Emacs use GNU Unifont by default (assuming they do contain the
> characters, which I think)?

This overloads (e.g. in .emacs.el) some of the definitions made in
fontset.el, so that in case of Adobe Courier not its iso-10646 variant
will be used, but instead GNU Unifont:

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(dolist (name '(mule-unicode-0100-24ff
		mule-unicode-2500-33ff
		mule-unicode-e000-ffff))
  (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" name
		    "-gnu-unifont-medium-r-normal--16-*-iso10646-1"))
		    ;; "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-*-iso10646-1"))
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