This is called font substitution, and it's ultimately controlled by
fontconfig. I assume that Specimen is using normal GNOME text-rendering
functions and just passing it the chosen font. A character not present
gets automatically substituted with some other font. That's what should
happen for most purposes—but it makes no sense for a font viewer.

** Also affects: gnome-specimen
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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  Displays characters from different font when font doesn't contain it

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