FcFreeTypeCharIndex(3)

🦋 FcFreeTypeCharIndex 🦋

okay so welcome to the FcFreeTypeCharIndex(3) page, bestie 🫶 we're mapping Unicode to glyph ids and it's giving font detective energy. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

FcFreeTypeCharIndex — map Unicode to glyph id 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

include these two, exactly:

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

FT_UInt FcFreeTypeCharIndex (FT_Face face, FcChar32 ucs4);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like, FcFreeTypeCharIndex() maps a Unicode char to a glyph index. You hand it an FT_Face face and an FcChar32 ucs4, and it does the mapping thing ✨.

The way it works: it uses information from several possible underlying encoding tables to work around broken fonts. That's the whole plot 🎀. Because of that, this function isn't designed to be used in performance sensitive areas — periodt. Results from this function are intended to be cached by higher level functions, so let the big functions hold onto the answer, okay? 💅

⚠️ lowkey important: not a performance-sensitive-area girlie, and the results are meant to be cached by higher level functions, fr fr.

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stay slay, bestie — this page comes from Fontconfig 2.17.0, dated 27 June 2025 🎀✨