Opened 5 months ago

Last modified 5 months ago

#18914 new enhancement

CharacterMap: Show origin of fallback character

Reported by: humdinger Owned by: axeld
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/CharacterMap Version: R1/beta4
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

If I'm not mistaken, Haiku transparently falls back on another font, if a character isn't part of the currently set font. It'd be nice to know which font provides the symbol.

In that case, maybe an "(origin: {NameOfFont})" could be added at the bottom, where it shows the selection's UTF-code etc.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by madmax, 5 months ago

That transparency means the application is none the wiser. As things are now, it can't even ask if the character would be drawn without resorting to fallbacks. This will also need changes in app_server.

comment:2 by humdinger, 5 months ago

Ah, I see. Or don't, as it's completely transparent to a fault. Not trivial then... :)

I was wondering which font I'd have to depend-package with an app that uses a special character that is apparently not in our Noto font.

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