Hello,

could font.getfont get an option to always return a new font table instead of returning the current one? While for many fonts a cached table makes sense, sometimes it would be useful to also have access to the ooriginal table, e.g. to see which characters are `used`, inspect the result of `font.addcharacters` or inspect other changes which might be applied to the underlying font from TeX.

I attached a patch implementing this by adding a `nocache` parameter to `font.getfont`, such that `font.getfont(true, font_id)` always generates a new table. IMO `font.getfont(font_id, true)` would look nicer, but that wouldn't be compatible to older LuaTeX versions which always expect the font is as last parameter. For such a feature I prefer "font.getcopy(id)". I'll add it to my todo

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