On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:32:38PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Fontconfig-using apps do not crash for lack of fonts, because > fontconfig has built-in font substitution Nice theory. Kinda breaks down when you find out that pango_font_metrics_get_approximate_char_width answers 0 on such a subtitution. Pretending that fontconfig/pango is bug-free is just out there. OG.