2010/2/14 Dotan Cohen <[email protected]>: > On 13 February 2010 21:56, Michael Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sunday 14 February 2010 08:31, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> > This website has information on unicode characters and what fonts >>> > contain the character in question. >>> > >>> >> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2699/index.htm >>> >>> Not quite. Many fonts don't have all the glyphs mentioned there (the >>> site error on the side of not caution). Also, the Font List tools >>> actually shows glyphs that don't belong to fonts because it also uses >>> a fallback font: >>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/fontlist.htm?text= >>> >> >> So far as websites go, the user computer uses fallback fonts to view them as >> well. This is both in the browser and in the OS also. >> > > Exactly, which is why a tool like this won't work. It could tell the > user how a particular character when configured for a particular font > will look on _his_system_ but it won't tell hi which fonts contain > glyphs for it. > > Is there no way to search fonts for a particular character to see if a > glyph exists for it or not?
Not that i know of, but if you have FontForge you can open a font and see if your character is there or not. FontForge can be found in one of the standard repositories. Regards Johnny Rosenberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
