[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 126600] New: No option to turn off Font Fallback and Glyph Fallback

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126600

            Bug ID: 126600
           Summary: No option to turn off Font Fallback and Glyph Fallback
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.4.0.3 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: litvinovg at ya.ru

Description:
Font fallback and Glyph fallback mechanisms bring in ambiguity in fonts used to
display a document and PDFs created from a document.
One one hand, it solves problem of substituting fonts and glyphs which is very
useful in a lot of use cases (especially when user don't care about the font),
but on the other hand it irreversibly hides control under this behaviour from
experienced users where user needs to have control under the fonts used in
document. When Writer used for publishing purposes it is very important to have
control under fonts used in result documents to eliminate situations of
appearing prorpietary fonts from the result PDF, as maker-up dont have any
information about absent glyphs and fonts until the moment of making result
PDF. And even after it is a terrible journey to find substituded glyphs.

As far as I know command line variable SAL_DISABLE_FC_SUBST to turn off font
fallback was removed in 5.4

I think this is a regression.

Actual Results:
Forced font substitution by Font fallback and Glyph fallback

Expected Results:
Option not to use font fallback and glyph fallback. Like SAL_DISABLE_FC_SUBST
variable.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



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