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Font
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.. currentmodule:: gi.repository.PangoXft





.. class:: Font(**properties: ~typing.Any)
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Superclasses: :class:`~gi.repository.PangoFc.Font`, :class:`~gi.repository.Pango.Font`, :class:`~gi.repository.GObject.Object`





``PangoXftFont`` is an implementation of ``PangoFcFont`` using the Xft
library for rendering.  It is used in conjunction with ``PangoXftFontMap``\.




Methods
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.. rst-class:: interim-class

.. class:: Font
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   .. method:: get_glyph(wc: str) -> int

      Gets the glyph index for a given Unicode character
      for ``font``\.

      If you only want to determine whether the font has
      the glyph, use :func:`~gi.repository.PangoXft.Font.has_char`.

      Use :func:`~gi.repository.PangoFc.PangoFc.Font.get_glyph` instead.


      .. versionadded:: 1.2





      :param wc: Unicode codepoint to look up




   .. method:: get_unknown_glyph(wc: str) -> int

      Returns the index of a glyph suitable for drawing ``wc`` as an
      unknown character.

      Use :func:`~gi.repository.Pango.GET_UNKNOWN_GLYPH` instead.






      :param wc: the Unicode character for which a glyph is needed.




   .. method:: has_char(wc: str) -> bool

      Determines whether ``font`` has a glyph for the codepoint ``wc``\.

      Use :func:`~gi.repository.PangoFc.PangoFc.Font.has_char` instead.


      .. versionadded:: 1.2





      :param wc: Unicode codepoint to look up