Does anyone know of a good program for examining fonts? What I am looking for is some way to, given a font, find out both the glyphs contained and the code points (bad term?) at which those glyphs are situated. Ability to read hinting/shaping tables a bonus. Suggestions?
For TT (and TT based OT) fonts, on Windows, you can use the Unibook utility.
You can load any TT font and it will show all the glyphs in the font at the Unicode position.
You can load a nameslist from the Unicode Character Database and look up character names
as well.
You can see private use code assignments and you can graphically display a limited set of font metrics.
It supports both fonts installed on your system, as well as direct access to TT font files.
You can get it (free) at:
http://www.unicode.org/unibook
I use it in this mode whenever someone sends me a font for characters not yet encoded - I always need to hunt down the glyphs as (being unencoded) they are either somewhere in the PUA or in overloaded Latin-1 space.
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