Re: Silent substitution of unexistent font parts

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 00:34, 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.

It's a bug in the font selector, a feature most everywhere else.

See:

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

For a piece of the solution.

Regards,
                                      Owen