That is pretty much what Fontconfig does already.  If you configure it 
properly, you should get the fonts that you want to use to be used in 
preference to other fonts that might contain the same character.

You are, of course, free to reimplement Fontconfig if you think that is what is 
needed.

The Cyberbit font, among others, is a large-coverage font.  I run with the 
Liberation family as the "style" font and Cyberbit as the "coverage" font.  I 
do not notice very many languages that don't have good coverage with that 
combination.

(I should have mentioned ligatures and other instances of having characters 
flow together in a particular script that is one of the services Pango 
provides.)
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Hi Marty - you have, in one fell stroke, revealed that I am more or less 
clueless :-)

OK, so I should definitely study Fontconfig; shame, in a way, since I was 
beginning to quite like the idea of doing it my way. But I have other, more 
pressing matters to attend to. Thanks for helping so kindly.

/jan

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