Tuesday, November 27, 2018

windows - How to know which of my fonts do or don't support certain glyphs?


I have a long list of glyphs with various Unicode points across several Unicode blocks that I need to represent in a monospaced form (which mean with a single font). How I can know which glyph the font does not support in that list?


I tried Microsoft Word, Open Office, Notepad++ and some others, but even ᴡindows® Notepad tries to substitute unknown characters from glyphs in other fonts instead of using the replacement character directly. Sometimes it even substitute characters whereas they exist in the font


Opening a font editor and checking Unicode points one by one would definitely takes hours. Below is the text I need to display properly


┌─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┲━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━┱─────┬─────┬─────┐

│ ɶ │ │ É │ │ │ │ │ È │ │ │ À │ № № │ ┃ ┃ ┃ Ver ┃ │ │ │
│   │ │ │   │   │ │   │Espac│   │   │ │ № № │ ┃ ‎ ┃ ┃Num ⌓┃ ⁄ ⨸ │ ⋇ ⨉ │ ₋ ₋ │
┢━━━━━┷━┱───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┴─┬───┺━┳━━━━━━━┫ ┡━━━━━╃─────┼─────┼─────┤
┃ ┃ ᴀ │ ᴢ │ ᴇ ℯ │ ʀ ℝ │ ᴛ │ ʏ │ ᴜ │ ɪ 🛈 │ ᴏ ℴ │ ᴘ ℘ │ │ ┃Entrée ┃ │ ⁷ │ ⁸ │ ⁹ │ │
┃   ┃ │ │ ℯ ℰ │ ℛ │ │ │ │\t ℐ │ ℴ ℴ │ ℘ │ │ ┃ ⏎ ┃ │ ⁷ │ ⁸ │ ⁹ │ │
┣━━━━━━━┻┱────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┴┬────┺┓ ┃ ├─────┼─────┼─────┤ │
┃ ┃ ᴁ │ ꜱ │ ᴅ │ ꜰ ℉ │ ɢ │ ʜ │ ᴊ │ ᴋ → │ ʟ ℓ │ ᴍ ℳ │ Ù │ ┃ ┃ │ ⁴ │ ⁵ │ ⁶ │ │
┃ꜱɢᴀᴘ ⇬ ┃ │ │ │ ℱ │ ℊ ℊ │ ℋ │ \n │ │ ℓ ℒ │ \r │   │ ┃ ┃ │ ⁴ │ ⁵ │ ⁶ │ ₊ ₊ │
┣━━━━━━━┳┹────┬┴────┬┴────┬┴────┬┴────┬┴────┬┴────┬┴────┬┴────┬┴────┬┴────┲┷━━━━━┻━━━━━━┫ ├─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┤
┃ ┃ │ ᴡ │ ꭥ │ ᴄ ℃ │ ᴠ │ ʙ ℬ │ ɴ │ │ │ │ ┃ ┃ │ ¹ │ ² │ ³ │ │

┃Shift ⇧┃ │ │ │ │ │ ℬ │ │ │ │   │ ┃Shift ⇧ ┃ │ ¹ │ ² │ ³ │ Ent │
┣━━━━━━━╋━━━━━┷━┳━━━┷━━━┱─┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴───┲━┷━━━━━╈━━━━━┻━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━┛ ├─────┴─────┼─────┤ ⏎ │
┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ │ ⁰ │ │ │
┃Ctrl ┃Meta ┃Alt ┃ ┃AltGr ⇮┃Menu ┃Ctrl ┃ │ ⁰ │ , │ │
┗━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━┹───────────────────────────────────┺━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━┛ └───────────┴─────┴─────┘

Answer



Today I learnt about a new tool, which "was made just for your question". It was published in 2011 but I am sharing it here, less than one hour after I tested it:


http://blog.tavultesoft.com/2011/07/character-identifier-tool.html


Hope this helps, it is an .exe so will probably need Windows.


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