Weird font issue

[carmen]

(10-10-2018, 12:08 PM)rich2005 Wrote:

Quote: ..the workaround is to to select the guilty character and choose a likely font for it, but I am still curious.

That is about all you can do. As far as I know, if the character is missing you get that little square which gives the position in the table.

If the font is missing, a default font is used. I always assumed it is "Sans" as this bit of Gimp code.

Code:

     /* No font with this name exists, use the standard font, but...
standard_font = g_object_new (GIMP_TYPE_FONT, "name", "Sans-serif",

but what is replaced in my linux computer is 'Standard Symbols' and in a Win10 / Gimp 2.10 the replacement called 'Standard' looks very like Verdana to me. That was the Windows default up to Win7 when Segoeui took over.

Thanks for your reply--but I am afraid there is a little misconception in it. As shown in this attchment,
     
Gimp does replace missing characteres--the one in the image is from the IPA Extensions, lacking in Sort Mills Goudy. The replacement is some Sans Serif Font--it could be Arial--Segoeui and Verdana both lack as well that particular unicode subset.
Thank you again for your attention.