On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 03:39 -0500, PagCal wrote:
> Once pango_fc_font_map_get_patterns gets a font-set from FcSort, it dutifully
> prepares each one for display, and then throws this font-set into it's cache.
>
> It seems to grab the first font in the font-set to use for display and starts
> displaying
> glyphs. For each glyph, it calls Xft convert between gunicode and an internal
> representation. All is well until Xft returns a 0, which means the currently
> selected
> font doesn't have a glyph for that unicode. Try U+4d17 for example, as it's a
> seldom used Chinese font.
>
> Now, things get interesting.
>
> Instead of moving on to the next font in the font-set, pango says in effect,
> oh-well, better display a little box with the unicode number in it.
If Pango decided to use a font without the glyph in it for the
character, that meant that *no* font on the system had the character.
This probably means that the fonts that you are trying to use aren't
in your fontconfig path.
Regards,
Owen
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