show text utf8 missing glyphs

[Steven J Abner]

This may be a little late, and hog-wash but:
only info found on subject was post from 18 years ago.

On a project, I created a text displaying draw routine. It uses 
cairo_show_text().
Relative information, is it tries to avoid most gtk, doesn't use pango 
or cairopango.
It relies heavy on C language, cairo, and gdk, in that order. Basically 
creates
objects/interaces that you cant create in gtk and should be able to do 
on linux, etc.

Tried using cairo glyphs, scaled fonts, and different ways of 
pango/pangocairo.
Finally went back to the best and independent cairo. Knew it was 
capable because
of a demo I created a few years back had the basic concept. I needed to 
be able
to draw out a locale file that reads/writes number systems. It contains 
numbers
that are utf8 and was used on my proof-of-concept testing. There is no 
attempt at
handling directional encoding! LOL, actual drew test the way I wanted 
design in the
first place. This is just a fall-back for missing codes, and only uses 
sans.

So, after the long winded intro, I send proof-of-concept code 
attachment, with the
relevant code pieces added to my project in hopes to contribute? spark 
debate or
laugh at the kook. I am aware you use Freetype as a backend, and have 
no idea how to
insert/modify existing cairo code to create a patch. Also note from me, 
my text display
draws some better than the gtk text display, cairo rocks!

Steve

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