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Bug 579900 - gucharmap shows characters not in selected font
gucharmap shows characters not in selected font
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gucharmap
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gucharmap maintainers
gucharmap maintainers
: 626892 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 505786
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-04-23 03:11 UTC by Mokurai
Modified: 2021-06-02 09:25 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Mokurai 2009-04-23 03:11:08 UTC
Reproducible at all times.

Currently, I can select a font and a character range (by script or by Unicode block) but I see a glyph for each character supported in the fonts I have installed, whether or not it is in the selected font. What I want to see some of the time is just the characters in the selected font, perhaps with an indication of which other characters _can_ be displayed using other installed fonts.

I would like to be able to toggle display of characters not in the currently selected font in gucharmap, either on the View menu or on the font menu, perhaps identified as "All". This would enable me to see either the total coverage of installed fonts, or the coverage of a selected font, as appropriate to my need. In particular, it would allow me to find fonts covering a Unicode block or the characters required for some application, and let others know which fonts to install for those purposes.

Alternatively, the characters not in the current font could be shown in gray, or with some other visible indication.
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2009-04-23 03:25:30 UTC
Almost dupe of 561907.

This is very easy to fix actually.  Just need to disable font fallback in the pango layouts.
Comment 2 Ahmad Syukri 2010-01-31 19:03:17 UTC
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561907
ah I cannot mark as duplicate, but this way, it appears on See Also, right?
Comment 3 Christian Persch 2010-08-14 11:46:07 UTC
*** Bug 626892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Christian Persch 2010-08-19 18:55:05 UTC
On master, I added an option to show only the glyphs from the selected font.

It's not quite finished, since the 'character details' tab still shows the char with fallback, due to gtktextview not having API to disable fallback (bug 505786).
Comment 5 Christoph Anton Mitterer 2010-08-19 23:28:02 UTC
Nice =)
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-02 09:25:36 UTC
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