> I suggest Fontmatrix or FontForge. They cannot automate the task, but > at least if they say the font contains the glyph, then you know it's > really there. (See comment below for additional options.) >
Fontmatrix does not support Hebrew text very well (I was surprised to find this limitation in a font application). Fontforge does seem to show only the glyphs in the font, but it is a pain! I will try to learn a bit more about the application, though, thanks. >>> If the font has not available the symbol, it will display a "fallback >>> alternative" sign, this is a suggested standard feature of unicode >>> fonts. > >>For instance, when I have Hebrew text but use a font that does not >>have Hebrew glyphs, I still see Hebrew letters. Obviously another font >>is being substituted. > > OpenOffice is the wrong tool to find out if a font contains a glyph. As > you have discovered, OOo will substitute the glyph from another font, > and it won't tell you it has done so. As far as I know this is also > true for MS Office, KOffice and AbiWord. Apparently users find this > "feature" so useful that Apple included it in the operating system for > MacOS. > > A better tool would be Scribus, in canvas view (not in Story Editor > view). I needed to do a similar task for glyphs required by the > International Phonetic Alphabet. I created a document where I typed all > the glyphs (about 60), then copied and pasted over and over. I set each > set to one of the fonts I was considering and then looked for holes. If > you line the sets up to look like a table it makes it easy to see the > results. > > Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org