On Sun, Feb 18 2018 at 18:03 CET, [email protected] writes: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 02:35:00PM +0100, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 18 2018 at 14:06 CET, [email protected] writes: >> > Subject: metric for block coverage >> > >> > Hi! >> > As a part of Debian fonts team work, we're trying to improve fonts review: >> > ways to organize them, add metadata, pick which fonts are installed by >> > default and/or recommended to users, etc. >> > >> > I'm looking for a way to determine a font's coverage of available scripts. >> > It's probably reasonable to do this per Unicode block. Also, it's a safe >> > assumption that a font which doesn't know a codepoint can do no complex >> > shaping of such a glyph, thus looking at just codepoints should be adequate >> > for our purposes. >> >> As a Debian user using some rare characters for old Polish >> transliteration I would be happy with a tool which scans >> available/installed fonts for a specific list of characters and shows >> only those fonts which support the whole list. Of course showing also >> the characters in question would be very desirable. > > Thanks, your suggestion is a good addition to the wishlist of features we'd > want to have. Especially for the "available" case -- it'd be tedious to > install all candidates just to check them. > > As for "installed": > fc-list ':charset=16e5' file family
Thanks! Some time ago I was looking at various Debian font utilities and found nothing suitable, but looks like I should use Google more intensively: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/162305/find-the-best-font-for-rendering-a-codepoint Best regards Janusz -- , Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) [email protected], [email protected], http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
