[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Fri Sep 20 03:50:16 PDT 2013


On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 21:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[…]
> I've always felt text rendering engines should be able to automatically
> fallback to another font for any characters that aren't in the selected
> font. (Ideally with a user-configurable chain of fallbacks, similar to
> CSS, but selected on a per-character basis.) Because showing the right
> character in a mismatched font has *got* to be better than not showing
> the character at all and a generic "missing font" glyph.

Cairo and Pango already do effectively this based on Fontconfig don't
they?

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