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-rw-r--r--lisp/faces.el6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el
index 612bd1677bb..5f3020b3189 100644
--- a/lisp/faces.el
+++ b/lisp/faces.el
@@ -2281,7 +2281,11 @@ If you set `term-file-prefix' to nil, this function does nothing."
:group 'basic-faces)
(defface variable-pitch
- '((t :family "Sans Serif"))
+ '((((type w32))
+ ;; This is a kludgey workaround for an issue discussed in
+ ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-04/msg00746.html.
+ :font "-outline-Arial-normal-normal-normal-sans-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1")
+ (t :family "Sans Serif"))
"The basic variable-pitch face."
:group 'basic-faces)