On 29 Mar 2010, at 17:30, Greg Ercolano wrote: > Is there a linux tool that can take utf8 text, and tell you all the > fonts > on the system that can display it?
Well - this kind of relates to the thread over in fltk.dev "Support for non alphabetic scripts..." I don't know of such a tool that already existed, but I did write one to do just that a while back - but it depends on XFT, so if you are wanting Xlib support, well... Anyway, what the code did (note that I can't actually find it right now - I think it maybe on the box in the spare room, which is shut down at present...) is take a block of text in utf8, then uses XFT calls to poke each font in turn to see if the font can support each code point in the text block - the XFT lib provides functions for exactly that purpose. I think I stopped when I found one that worked, but it would be trivial to go and poke them all... > I'm not sure such a tool can exist, but I imagine there must be > some way > a tool can load each font on the system, and confirm whether the > glyphs > exist or not for that font. Yup - as noted above, XFT can do that. I think the Xlib font mechanism maybe can too, but I don't know enough about it to know. > Firefox and Thunderbird all seem to know how to display eg. > japanese and > korean fonts "automagically", but in FLTK (on linux anyway), we > need to > /specify/ font names in order to display them properly. ...which is exactly the problem that the thread in fltk.dev is looking at... > So it'd be great if I could copy UTF8 text from eg. firefox/mozilla, > and paste it into a program that tells me what font names on the > system > can display it. Yup... If I can find my code, or any bits of it, I'll send it along. Won't be today though, as the baby is asleep in that room now... -- Ian _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
