Hi Folks,
Just posted this to comp.fonts, but figured I should try here also.
Not sure if this is the correct group, but I have code that generated Unicode strings displayed via Java on X Windows. The strings include characters from the Enclosed Alphanumerics Unicode block. On one Linux system (where I've installed every font package I could find), the strings display as expected. On another Linux (default) system, they display as little squares, i.e., missing.
Is there a way to directly identify the font needed to support a particular Unicode block?
Take care, Michael.
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 13:33 -0700, Michael Rohan wrote:
Hi Folks,
Just posted this to comp.fonts, but figured I should try here also.
Not sure if this is the correct group, but I have code that generated Unicode strings displayed via Java on X Windows. The strings include characters from the Enclosed Alphanumerics Unicode block. On one Linux system (where I've installed every font package I could find), the strings display as expected. On another Linux (default) system, they display as little squares, i.e., missing.
Is there a way to directly identify the font needed to support a particular Unicode block?
Not that I'm aware of. However, the larger the size of the font file, the better your chances are.
Also, the SIL fonts, such as Charis and Gentium, are more likely to be useful to you because they support a much wider variety of Unicode characters than most fonts.
Michael Rohan wrote:
Hi Folks,
Just posted this to comp.fonts, but figured I should try here also.
Not sure if this is the correct group, but I have code that generated Unicode strings displayed via Java on X Windows. The strings include characters from the Enclosed Alphanumerics Unicode block.
Font-config can do this, though its documentation, API, and command-line interface are all rather inscrutable. I wrote a program that can take any character as input and give you the filename of a font with it.
Just put the two files anywhere, then:
make ./CharSearch ①
I.e. put the character you're looking for as the first and only argument. Only tested with en_US.UTF-8 as LANG environment variable.
Matt Flaschen
CC=gcc CFLAGS=--std=c99 -I /usr/include -I /usr/include/fontconfig -L /usr/lib/ -l fontconfig OBJ=CharSearch
CharSearch: CharSearch.c ${CC} ${CFLAGS} CharSearch.c -o ${OBJ}
clean: rm ${OBJ}
Hi,
Thank you, this looks like it might be what I'm looking for.
Take care, Michael.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Matthew Flaschen < matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu> wrote:
Michael Rohan wrote:
Hi Folks,
Just posted this to comp.fonts, but figured I should try here also.
Not sure if this is the correct group, but I have code that generated Unicode strings displayed via Java on X Windows. The strings include characters from the Enclosed Alphanumerics Unicode block.
Font-config can do this, though its documentation, API, and command-line interface are all rather inscrutable. I wrote a program that can take any character as input and give you the filename of a font with it.
Just put the two files anywhere, then:
make ./CharSearch �
I.e. put the character you're looking for as the first and only argument. Only tested with en_US.UTF-8 as LANG environment variable.
Matt Flaschen
CC=gcc CFLAGS=--std=c99 -I /usr/include -I /usr/include/fontconfig -L /usr/lib/ -l fontconfig OBJ=CharSearch
CharSearch: CharSearch.c ${CC} ${CFLAGS} CharSearch.c -o ${OBJ}
clean: rm ${OBJ}
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