[Fontconfig] Finding a font but without fallback

[Pierre Marchand]

Vous (Nicolas Mailhot) avez écrit :
> Le vendredi 25 avril 2008 à 13:34 -0700, Sairus Patel a écrit :
> > I haven't seen a response yet.
>
> As a user, and as someone interested in i18n, I'd be *very* suspicious
> of any application that tried to disable the normal system font
> management.

I think you forget that  Fontconfig not only manages system fonts. And all 
font management applications or modules I know (except TeX stuff) for users 
fonts also use Fontconfig.

> Font & glyph substitution is *very* important on FLOSS systems,
> especially when you render documents composed on other platforms with
> different fonts (that have different unicode coverages)

In my opinion, font & glyph substitutions should not be done without clear 
statement from the user that he agrees on these substitutions. From my 
graphic designer point of view, a silent font substitution can be a disaster. 
And nevermind if it’s FLOSS or not.

> Nevertheless if you insist on producing something that does not fit with
> the rest of the system, I'd say look up gucharmap's code — it knows what
> font each glyph is taken from, and once you have this info, refusing to
> use a particular glyph is not too far away.

Gucharmap, because it focuses on Unicode rather than fonts, might not be the 
best code to look at.


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Pierre Marchand
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