[Fontconfig] How to block glyph fallback in a QT application?

[Akira TAGOH]

Well, the topic on that discussion was for the whole font. I'm not
quite sure if that helps for glyph fallback like pango does and what
you may expect. but I think I referred to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8053.

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Janusz S. Bien <jsbien at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote:
> The problem of the glyph fallback has been already discussed on the list,
> but in the context of Pango.
>
> We have a QT application
>
> https://bitbucket.org/mrudolf/djview-poliqarp
>
> used to display historical texts with a lot of ligatures and some PUA
> characters form Medieval Unicode Font Initiative. If the user incidentally
> selects an improper font, then fallback creates quite a mess.
>
> In
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2012-December/004490.html
>
> there is a statement:
>
> "there are no way to do that in fontconfig so far and a RFE is
> in Bugzilla long while."
>
> There is still no way to do it in fontconfig?
>
> Which RFE is referred to in the post?
>
> I would appreciate very much your comments and suggestions.
>
> Best regards
>
> Janusz
>
> --
> Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bień -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki
> Formalnej)
> Prof. Janusz S. Bień - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
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Akira TAGOH