On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:14:26 +0200, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > Hello Jan, > >> I would be very nice, if you could list which character ranges (western >> european, eastern european, cyrrilic, greek, hebrew, etc...) are covered by >> each font. For people who regularly use other languages than English, it's >> quite important information to decide whether they could be interested in >> those fonts or not. More so that it's not prominently mentioned on the ADF >> web. > > Good idea, do you have an idea how to figure? I know there are tools like > fontmatrix and fontforge, but maybe you know a simple way...
Unfortunately, I don't. But quick look with fontforge suggests they support
what is in iso-8859-1, ie. western european languages, plus occasional
character here and there (some symbols in the 0x20xx, 0x21xx and 0x22xx
ranges).
I don't know about any existing tool to find out other than by looking at the
chart, but I think it should not be too hard to write it. Pango has a method
to provide a "Coverage" object for a font, which says for each character
whether it is present, substitute is defined or not present and Glib has
basic unicode database (to tell which characters should be there in the first
place).
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <b...@ucw.cz>
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