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12:59:41
scymtym
ck_: thank you for reviewing the pull request. if you are satisfied with the current state (which i assume is the case since you "approved"), you can merge it as no other reviews are pending. i'm saying this because we have a (very loose) "don't merge your own pull requests" policy
13:14:27
ck_
.. and for the Text-Size-Test demo hint. The font config yielding the empty box are the 'sans serif' ones
15:13:57
ck_
I mean, Verdana /is/ a sans-serif font. I'm not too familiar with how those families are specified here on macos -- I remember the x logical font descriptions though
15:16:46
ck_
could that be the problem? I mean the 'adstyl' part, requesting a sans-serif variant of an already sans-serif font. ...then again, the problem is only with those non-ascii characters
15:19:10
scymtym
i don't know. another idea is using the "font selector" demo which is similar but allows selecting fonts more directly
15:25:58
ck_
If jd were here, he'd say "this will be taken care of when we ship fonts with mcclim", right.
15:40:47
scymtym
if the root cause is a bug in our font discovery/loading/rendering, it should still be fixed
15:52:16
ck_
okay. What we know is that these unicode arrows and symbols are displayed correctly for the font my setup is using (Verdana.ttf) and all combinations of family and face, except "sans serif"