On 1/24/20 10:07 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > My best/ideal solution is if I could make cyclone/comment say *you tried to > load helvetica, but I loaded "x" instead*
https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/TkCmd/font.htm#M5 that was the first hit i got when searching for "tcl get information on current font" >. Now, apparently this is handled > internally via tk, actually no. this is done on an OS-level. *most* software that deals with fonts will simply ask the OS's font-manager to give it a certain font, and the font-manger will return a handle to a "close-enough" font. that's a good thing, as applications don't have to worry too much about which fonts are available on a given system (fonts are really hairy regarding licenses). most fonts only cover a small range of available characters (e.g. only characters used in "western" scripts), so picking a sepcific font might turn some glyphs into the famous square symbol. to somewhat fix this, the OS's font-manager will mix various fonts for you, so if you have at least one font with kanji support, you can still use your limited default font and use "it" to display both portuguese and japanese. gmds IOhannes
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