Re: Silent substitution of unexistent font parts

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

It's a feature and a bug. 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105553

There are other programs you can use to view only the
characters in the font. One simple one is gwaterfall, which
you can get from keithp.com cvs thusly:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs keithp com:/local/src/CVS co gwaterfall

Noah

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at  8:34:52 +0400, Dmitry G. Mastrukov wrote:
> Hi!
> I downloaded Bitstream Vera fonts, installed them and tried to use. I
> looked on them through gnome font dialog, through gucharmap and was able
> to see Cyrillic on ordinary place. But in reality Vera fonts have no
> Cyrillic part. So someone (Pango?) silently substitutes unexistent parts
> of one font with another similar font.
> Is that a feature or a bug? If that is a feature then what are font
> selection and viewer dialogs/programs needed for? I'd like to see how
> some letters look in exactly that font and not in another. But I see
> parts of another font even without notice.
> 
> Regards,
> Dmitry
> 
> 
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