Bug 49618 - last resort font not supported
Summary: last resort font not supported
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fop - Now in Jira
Classification: Unclassified
Component: fonts (show other bugs)
Version: all
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: fop-dev
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Reported: 2010-07-19 21:55 UTC by Glenn Adams
Modified: 2010-07-26 13:17 UTC (History)
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Description Glenn Adams 2010-07-19 21:55:36 UTC 
during area generation, the mapping of characters to glyphs should make use of a "last resort" font, e.g., see http://www.unicode.org/policies/lastresortfont_eula.html, in order to render characters that are otherwise unrenderable by the assigned font(s);

suggest that FOP configuration file permit user to specify a last resort font, and that area generation and/or font component(s) make use of this information to map unrenderable characters to last resort glyphs;

see also bug 39422 (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39422)
Comment 1 Glenn Adams 2010-07-19 22:02:51 UTC 
keywords: glyph, glyphs, character, characters, last resort font, character to glyph mapping
Comment 2 Vincent Hennebert 2010-07-26 13:17:28 UTC 
Please do not assign the bug to yourself as then updates are no longer being sent to the fop-dev mailing list and it becomes difficult to follow the bug. Just add a comment saying that you're wanting to look into it instead.

Thanks,
Vincent