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Bug 119268 - Remove symbols that aren't in the selected font
Remove symbols that aren't in the selected font
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gucharmap
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gucharmap maintainers
gucharmap maintainers
Depends on: 105553
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-08-06 15:36 UTC by Scott Van Wart
Modified: 2021-06-02 09:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Scott Van Wart 2003-08-06 15:36:28 UTC 
Feature request (I think).  When hunting for symbols in a specific font
file, it's difficult to tell what symbols are actually provided by that
font.  Each symbol has to be manually inspected to see if it's actually the
selected font with the glyph, or another font.

It would be nice to turn this off so that symbols appear if and only if
they're provided by the font selected in the dropdown box...

Thanks.
Comment 1 Noah Levitt 2003-08-06 19:15:14 UTC 
Waiting on pango to support this feature. Hopefully it will get into
1.4.0.
Comment 2 Behnam Esfahbod 2005-12-12 15:24:08 UTC 
I told Behdad about 4 month ago about adding a font viewer beside gucharmap. 
This feature is the main reason for a Unicode-based font viewer (gufontview?).

As gucharmap shouldn't be a font viewer, I want to Resolve/WontFix this bug for
now.  Move it to that component later, if needed.

Behdad?  Noah?
Comment 3 Behdad Esfahbod 2005-12-12 16:10:35 UTC 
Humm, doesn't really matter, closing one bug or not :).  Let it be around.  I do
think the font browser and gucharmap have a lot in common.
Comment 4 Matijs van Zuijlen 2007-08-23 10:54:47 UTC 
Any progress on this? The gnome font viewer still only shows the quick brown fox, and only works on font files, not on installed fonts.
Comment 5 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-08-23 17:06:30 UTC 
No progress, no.  But in gnome-font-viewer you can set the sample text.
Comment 6 Matijs van Zuijlen 2007-08-24 06:42:18 UTC 
I don't see any option in gnome-font-viewer to set the sample text. The old gfontview did have that option, but it's, pre-gnome 2.

Setting the sample text yourself is a sub-optimal solution, since the user may not even be able to type the characters in the font.
Comment 7 Sam Morris 2015-12-18 17:01:43 UTC 
This appears to have been implemented at some point: View → Show only glyph from this font
Comment 8 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-02 09:04:51 UTC 
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