Sure, that would tell you if a font had a glyph at that code point, but what Character Viewer does is tell you, for a given code point, which fonts have that glyph.
On 2/6/11 4:09 PM, "O'Donnell, Dan" daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca wrote:
Conal Tuohy built a little checker for Windows many years ago. And you can use any of the modern browsers to see if the character is on your system at all. I wonder could you use rich pasting into a word-processor or similar to discover the font name?
E.g. create a page with the point, load it up in Firefox, if a character appears, copy and paste it into a wordprocessor and hope that font information has been preserved?
I appreciate all the advice on utilities for SVN and the like: I don't have a Mac and have never really used one, so I'm happy to have names I can throw around. I find that the command line can be scary to people, so when I'm introducing lots of new concepts and techniques, I'm always happy if there is GUI-based software available at least initially!
-dan
On 11-02-06 01:29 PM, Simpson, Grant Leyton wrote:
Thanks for those references, John. I will have to check them out. As far as determining which font contains which characters, I feel your pain. I tend to install Junicode and trust that it has the characters I need. (Bless you, Peter Baker!)
On 2/6/11 3:22 PM, "John McChesney-Young"jmccyoung@gmail.com wrote:
Although it's certainly correct that the Character Palette built into Mac OS X is excellent (and I wish there were a Linux application that would tell me which fonts include a given character as easily as it does), a couple of similar free applications may also prove useful:
http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/ http://pixel.recoil.org/code/unicodefontinfo/index.html
John
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM, O'Donnell, Dan daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca wrote in part:
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- Unicode navigator--is there a standard code point navigator for
Mac?...
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