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Bug 468334 - Exotic unicode characters sometimes unwantedly change fonts
Exotic unicode characters sometimes unwantedly change fonts
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63633
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
1.16.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-19 22:35 UTC by Alexander “weej” Jones
Modified: 2007-08-20 03:44 UTC
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Description Alexander “weej” Jones 2007-08-19 22:35:34 UTC 
For example, U+2103 "DEGREE CELSIUS" (℃) will, if not found in the current typeface, fall back to something from another font.

GUCharMap gives this snippet of info about the character:

Approximate equivalents:
 • U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C

It would be nice if Pango could fall back to attempting to compose the character from the current typeface instead, when possible.
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-08-20 03:44:35 UTC 
Yep.  And that's bug 63633.

That said, it's not exactly clear whether using those approximate sequence is preferable to picking it up from the next font having it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63633 ***