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Bug 578489 - please make it visible (at first sight) when a character has been substituted from another font
please make it visible (at first sight) when a character has been substituted...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 561907
Product: gucharmap
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gucharmap maintainers
gucharmap maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-04-09 14:02 UTC by Fabian Greffrath
Modified: 2009-04-12 20:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24



Description Fabian Greffrath 2009-04-09 14:02:28 UTC
Hi,

if I view a font in gucharmap that is missing some glyphs (mostly from 
uncommon unicode blocks) these characters are substituted [1] from 
another font that provides these glyphs (Dejavu sans in most cases). 
For the user this leaves the impression that the selected font *does* 
actually contain the specific glyphs. Only by right-clicking on the 
glyph and zooming into it I learn (from the subscript of the popup 
window) that it has been taken from another font. It would be really 
nice if this information could be made more obvious, e.g. in the 
status bar or by a small label in the character table.

Cheers,
Fabian

[1] This is a fontconfig feature, right?


Other information:
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2009-04-12 20:45:29 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 561907 ***