Bug#521188: please make it visible (at first sight) when a character has been substituted from another font

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: gucharmap
Version: 1:2.24.3-1
Severity: minor

Hi,

if I view a font in gucharmap that is missing some glyphs (mostly from 
uncommon unicode blocks) these characters are substituted [1] from 
another font that provides these glyphs (Dejavu sans in most cases). 
For the user this leaves the impression that the selected font *does* 
actually contain the specific glyphs. Only by right-clicking on the 
glyph and zooming into it I learn (from the subscript of the popup 
window) that it has been taken from another font. It would be really 
nice if this information could be made more obvious, e.g. in the 
status bar or by a small label in the character table.

Cheers,
Fabian

[1] This is a fontconfig feature, right?

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Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath

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