On Wed Apr 3 20:52:54 2024 +0000, Nikolay Sivov wrote:
I don't see 0xFF0B or 0x2715 available in Tahoma font on Windows.
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.