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Fonts, where are you? graphics linux 1a-insec.net
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  BenjaminRi edited 3 months ago | link
  
  I have no clue what the author is looking for. Querying fonts with GTK (and all other GUI toolkits that use Pango, which is extremely widespread) is simple: https://docs.gtk.org/Pango/class.FontMap.html
  
  Here is a real life Rust application that chooses a monospace font dynamically at runtime by intersecting a preference list with what’s available on the system: https://github.com/BenjaminRi/Sherlog/blob/0bd8ac46b1ec3c2628664cbdba3758bd5ecc2906/src/main.rs#L716
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    iacore 2 months ago | link
    
    I don’t want to use pango.
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  Screwtape edited 3 months ago | link
  If you want to find a font that contains a particular character, you can just ask. For example, if you want to find a font that can render U+1F511 🔑 KEY:
  
  $ fc-list ":charset=1F511" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoColorEmoji.ttf: Noto Color Emoji:style=Regular
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    iacore 2 months ago | link
    
    fc-list “:charset=1F511”
    
    thanks! adding it to my article