Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] MR5447: fonts: Add U+FF0B U+25BC U+2715, fix visual issue in Notepad++

[Sam Joan Roque-Worcel (＠Joan)]

On Thu Apr  4 03:18:16 2024 +0000, Sam Joan Roque-Worcel wrote:
> Correct! In Windows, these are missing in Tahoma, but are present in MS Gothic.
> Things I considered doing:
> - I attempted to find a suitable, metric-compatible font capable of
> replacing MS Gothic but it is very particular, and nothing fits the bill
> - I thought about creating a metric compatible font, but I'm not sure
> that this approach would be the best as it is very time consuming.
> - I thought about creating a bare-bones font and shipping it with Wine,
> which contains only these three glyphs. This would potentially break
> Wine for users who have installed Microsoft's font, depending of the
> order of precedence in font loading (I'm not sure about this one)
> So as a workaround, I added them to Tahoma which doesn't have any of
> those disadvantages. If you can suggest a better approach though please
> let me know and I will look into it.
> Hmm I thought the tests I was getting were flakey, but it seems that my changes here are causing failing tests. I may ask in IRC if anyone can think of a better approach.

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