[Fontconfig] Detecting whether a font is a fallback

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le jeudi 20 avril 2023 à 17:56 +0900, Akira TAGOH a écrit :

> Well, no, unfortunately we don't. In the first place, most
> applications request a font with a generic family name. In that sense,
> the result will always be a fallback. and there is no way to know in
> fontconfig which one is reliable.
> 
> We could export a result of score that fontconfig figured out from
> FcPattern and see how it was picked up though. that may be too
> primitive. may need to think about better interface.

Thank you for confirming this. Would it be an appropriate feature request to file on the issue tracker?

Best,

Jean
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