[konsole] [Bug 308839] Characters missing in the chosen font shouldn't be silently substituted with some other font

[Ahmad Samir]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308839

Ahmad Samir  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Resolution|--- |DOWNSTREAM
 Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #7 from Ahmad Samir  ---
IIUC, font substitution isn't done by konsole but rather by fontconfig; konsole
uses whatever the fontconfig on the system has set up.

Closing as DOWNSTREAM; this is a distro fontconfig issue.

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[konsole] [Bug 308839] Characters missing in the chosen font shouldn't be silently substituted with some other font

[Horacio Sanson via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308839

Horacio Sanson  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Horacio Sanson  ---
This would break all terminal applications to non English speaking users. I use
mutt to read my emails that come in Spanish, English and Japanese.

There is no single font that supports all three languages so limiting the
terminal to a single font would be impractical for users like me.

The real issue here is not Konsole but fontconfig that is not configured
correctly for your case. Here is blog post explaining the issue and possible
fix:

   
https://eev.ee/blog/2015/05/20/i-stared-into-the-fontconfig-and-the-fontconfig-stared-back-at-me/

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