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Bug 626892 - print only the glyphs the selected font actually has
print only the glyphs the selected font actually has
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 579900
Product: gucharmap
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gucharmap maintainers
gucharmap maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-08-13 23:32 UTC by Christoph Anton Mitterer
Modified: 2010-08-14 16:19 UTC
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Description Christoph Anton Mitterer 2010-08-13 23:32:46 UTC 
Hi.

gucharmap allows selecting a font.

But even when a special font is selected,.. characters not in this font a simply used by other fonts.

This is rather unlogical and doesn't allow one to really see what a font provides.

I suggest, that when a font is selected, only the glyphs it actually has should be shown.
There can be an additional mode where no font is selected,.. and where gucharmap simply tries to collect as much characters from different fonts as possible.


Cheers,
Chris.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2010-08-14 11:35:14 UTC 
gucharmap is not a fontviewer, there are other tools for this job. I can imagine a WONTFIX as to me it's rather logical to fall back to other fonts in order to display a glyph at all.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2010-08-14 11:46:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 579900 ***
Comment 3 Christoph Anton Mitterer 2010-08-14 16:19:05 UTC 
Well but then it makes not much sense to have a font/mode selectable at all?!