Support for fallback fonts about herbe HOT 7 OPEN

Any update?.

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I'm quite busy these days, so I tried to quickly add this feature, but it seems like I found a bug with emoji fonts. So I just wanted to let you know that I will hopefully get to it in a week or two.

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Hello @dtop129. It's nice to have fallback fonts built inside the program. However, it would be much better if you use font aliases.

Here is what I have in my ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <alias>
    <family>serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>

  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>

  <alias>
    <family>monospace</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>FiraCode Nerd Font</family>
      <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

For instance the first alias tag maps serif to DejaVu Serif and uses Noto Color Emoji as backup.

Although, as @dudik mentioned, colored emojis have some problems in herbe.

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Does anyone have a patch? It looks like fontconfig isn't respected for me.

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Does anyone have a patch? It looks like fontconfig isn't respected for me.

Same.

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Hi folks, now that I look into my old herbe fork, there's this hacky attempt. Look at the changes to herbe.c and config.def.h files, as I made messy commits back then ;)

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This would be also useful for users who use CJK(Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and other non Latin fonts. These characters would show up as black boxes when displayed:
$ herbe "こにちわ"

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