FcFreeTypeCharIndex (3) Linux Manual Page

FcFreeTypeCharIndex – map Unicode to glyph id

Synopsis

#include <fontconfig.h> #include <fcfreetype.h>

FT_UInt FcFreeTypeCharIndex (FT_Face face, FcChar32 ucs4);

Description

Maps a Unicode char to a glyph index. This function uses information from several possible underlying encoding tables to work around broken fonts. As a result, this function isn’t designed to be used in performance sensitive areas; results from this function are intended to be cached by higher level functions.