A question about fonts

[Andersen, Jan]

So your problem is that the web browser you are using fails to display
all the glyphs?  That sounds like an issue with that application.  I
would think all main web browsers today would have proper font switching
support.  That is, if the font they are using does not support a
specific glyph, they will use a different font for that glyph.  A
possible complication could be if there is a font on the system that
claims to support the glyph but renders it as a "glyph-not-found" shape.
(I think I have seen that happen.)

It would probably make sense to take the question to the web browser's
forums.

(That isn't to say that X and related technologies (e.g. fontconfig)
can't be improved to make it easier for applications to do proper font
switching, of course.)

eirik
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Thanks for helping, Eirik.

I'm not really sure the problem is the browser as such - the characters that are missing in the browser are also missing in the font when I look at them with Fontforge, and then there is the problem with a large number of them being outside the range of any single font. I suppose this is something you wouldn't really come across much unless you try to do something like what I am doing, where you systematically go through everything. Missing characters I simply fill in when I have time, so the only remaining problem is the sheer size of the set of characters.

So, I will go away and study fontconfig now. Thanks to everybody for being so patient with me.

/jan