On Sun, Feb 18 2018 at 14:06 CET, [email protected] writes: [...]
> From: Adam Borowski via Unicode <[email protected]> > Subject: metric for block coverage > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:18:25 +0100 > Reply-To: Adam Borowski <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:18:25 +0100 (15 hours, 2 minutes, 28 seconds ago) > > 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. 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/
