+ int ascent = font->ascent, descent = font->descent;
+
+ /* Font's global ascent and descent values might be
+ preposterously large for some fonts. We fix here the case
+ when those fonts are used for display of glyphless
+ characters, because drawing background with font dimensions
+ in those cases makes the display illegible. There's only one
+ more call to the draw method with with_background set to
+ true, and that's in x_draw_glyph_string_foreground, when
+ drawing the cursor, where we have no such heuristics
+ available. FIXME. */
+ if (s->first_glyph->type == GLYPHLESS_GLYPH
+ && (s->first_glyph->u.glyphless.method == GLYPHLESS_DISPLAY_HEX_CODE
+ || s->first_glyph->u.glyphless.method == GLYPHLESS_DISPLAY_ACRONYM))
+ {
+ ascent =
+ s->first_glyph->slice.glyphless.lower_yoff
+ - s->first_glyph->slice.glyphless.upper_yoff;
+ descent = 0;
+ }