https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151121

Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Timur from comment #6)
> Reopened is wrong status, do not set. 

Fair enough, but the link you gave doesn't say when "REOPENED" applies.


(In reply to Caolán McNamara from comment #5)
> FWIW there are two levels of substitution.

So, actually, I think you're describing three levels:

1. Font is missing altogether
2. Specific glyph is missing altogether (i.e. all variants)
3. Variant of glyph is missing (e.g. bold vs non-bold, italic vs roman)

and I might add another level 1.5" between (1.) and (2.), which would be an
entire block on the Unicode plane missing (block e.g. in the sense of the
Insert Special Character dialog).

My interest is mostly levels 1.5 and 2. , and to a lesser extent level 3. I,
and I believe many users, need to know which font (family) is _actually_ used
to render their text, or their text in a certain language:

1. To prevent cases of different rendering on another system due to  different
fallbacks.
2. To be able to choose between font families for their text - rather than
making the choice with the different options mis-represented: You think you've
chosen font Foo but it's actually font Bar; then you continue down and notice
that Baz seems to remind you of Foo a lot, but you don't know if it's because
they're actually similar, or because they both fall bar to Bar.

Now, you said the "higher levels" aren't aware of this. But - we can definitely
see which glyphs are available in which font, using the Insert Special
Character dialog. Doesn't that mean that we _do_ have this visibility?

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