Bug 236060

Summary:	Allow to change order of fonts used for missing glyphs
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	kcm_fonts	Assignee:	System Settings Bugs <sourtooth+ssbugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	harmathy
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
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Description Dotan Cohen 2010-05-02 19:53:37 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux

Please add an option to System Settings to set the font-replacement order for glyphs that do not exist in the current font.

For instance, if the user uses a Unicode character that does not exist in the preferred font, the system will substitute a glyph from another font. This bug requests that the order in which the fonts will be checked for glyphs to be configurable from within System Settings' Font Manager.
Thanks.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-05-03 03:04:53 UTC

While this is not currently possible using the KDE tools, you could change the fonts.conf file manually and add the substitution rules there.

Related to bug 14496, bug 39185.

Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2010-05-03 12:15:01 UTC

Thanks, Christoph. After some more research, I discovered that the term "font substitution" is not fitting, as it refers to something else already. I am updating the title to reflect that.

I am looking further into this, I may take a short at writing a Python app to handle this. I will post back with more details later. if anyone has any advice or links to good f manuals, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.