RE: Finding a font that contains a particular character

[Carl W. Brown]

Alan,

IE uses mlang to determine if you have the right fonts for the characters.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/misc/mlang/overv
iew/overview.asp

Carl

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Alan Wood
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 8:36 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Finding a font that contains a particular character
>
>
> Someone recently asked how to find a font that contains a
> particular Unicode
> character.  I don't have an easy answer, but TrueType Explorer
> (for Windows)
> may help:
>
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/chris.lamoureux2/
>
> It reads the tables in your installed fonts (or a
> drag-and-dropped font that
> is not installed), and lets you display and sort the information
> in various
> ways, one of which is a list of fonts sorted by the number of characters
> they include in a particular Unicode range.
>
> Alan Wood
> http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
>
>
>

Re: Finding a font that contains a particular character

[John H. Jenkins]

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Alan Wood wrote:


Someone recently asked how to find a font that contains a particular 
Unicode
character.  I don't have an easy answer, but TrueType Explorer (for 
Windows)
may help:


On the Mac, BTW, Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you can either use the 
character palette (in the keyboard menu) or install Apple's font tools 
 and use ftxinstalledfonts with the 
-U option.  Both of these work with astral characters.

==
John H. Jenkins
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http://www.tejat.net/

Finding a font that contains a particular character

[Alan Wood]

Someone recently asked how to find a font that contains a particular Unicode
character.  I don't have an easy answer, but TrueType Explorer (for Windows)
may help:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/chris.lamoureux2/

It reads the tables in your installed fonts (or a drag-and-dropped font that
is not installed), and lets you display and sort the information in various
ways, one of which is a list of fonts sorted by the number of characters
they include in a particular Unicode range.

Alan Wood
http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)