Re: git: 27358245644c - main - freebsd-tips: Add fortune to find font providing Unicode character

On Mon 13 May 23:02, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by jrm:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=27358245644c2a8bf2b57182e2fcd8cdf18d6b8d
> 
> commit 27358245644c2a8bf2b57182e2fcd8cdf18d6b8d
> Author:     Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2024-05-13 18:38:13 +0000
> Commit:     Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2024-05-13 23:02:17 +0000
> 
>     freebsd-tips: Add fortune to find font providing Unicode character
>     
>     Reviewed by:    emaste
>     Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
>     Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45183
> ---
>  usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips b/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
> index 028a9e9b1430..e24d3640b8c6 100644
> --- a/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
> +++ b/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles/freebsd-tips
> @@ -845,3 +845,17 @@ kern.tty_info_kstacks to 0 (off), 1 (on), or 2 (verbose), e.g.:
>  
>  		-- Michael Gmelin <grembo@FreeBSD.org>
>  %
> +
> +Under X Windows, you can determine which fonts provide a particular Unicode
> +character using fc-list from the fontconfig package.  For example, if your
> +friend complains that the emoji you sent won't display, run fc-list with the hex
> +value of the character to determine which font your friend should install.

This has nothing to do with X window, it is valid for anything that can use
fontconfig, which does not include xorg, but the toolkits or the libraries which
needs to deal with fonts, for instance many non "X windows" applications,
depends on fontconfig and this tips is valide for them, for example for
libraries producing podofo or poppler can use fontconfig to decide which font to
embeded in the pdf document.

In my opinion the "Under X Windows" should be removed from this tips.

Best regards,
Bapt