Re: Unicode Fonts

From: Gary Bonham (Gary@BonhamDesigns.com)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 10:48:18 EST


It worked for every font I tried it on - including MS Mincho! I'm on NT4,
perhaps it's different on a different OS???

Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: <rseaman@lexmark.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Unicode Fonts

> One other thing about that font utility is that it doesn't seem to work
for any
> of the Asian typefaces, such as MS-Mincho. Does someone perhaps know if
there is
> a localized version of that program, or another one that can give similar
> information for Asian fonts?
>
>
>
> "Suzanne Topping" <stopping%rochester.rr.com@interlock.lexmark.com> on
> 2000/03/30 08:43:16
>
> To: "Unicode List" <unicode%unicode.org@interlock.lexmark.com>
> cc: (bcc: Robert Seaman/Lex/Lexmark)
> Subject: Re: Unicode Fonts
>
>
>
> Related to the Microsoft font utilities that people have suggested over
the
> last few days, is there anything which lists the glyphs included in font
> sets?
>
> This comes from a question Joon posed recently. His exact question (off
> list) was: "...I am trying to figure out how many and which Unicode
> characters do not have a glyph on a Standard Unicode TrueType font."
> Pronunciation symbols seemed to be a particular problem.
>
> This is a harder task, obviously, but who knows? Maybe there IS something
> out there that someone knows about...
>
> Suzanne
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hart, Edwin F. <Edwin.Hart@jhuapl.edu>
> To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 8:12 AM
> Subject: RE: Unicode Fonts
>
>
> > Go to the Microsoft page on Typography at
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/default.asp
> >
> > Then select the free "font properties extension" utility, which gives
you
> > the information by Unicode ranges. However, the information is in a
> window
> > rather than a report.
> >
> > Ed Hart
> >
> > Edwin F. Hart
> > The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
> > 11100 Johns Hopkins Road
> > Laurel, MD 20723-6099
> > +1-443-778-6926 (Baltimore)
> > +1-240-228-6926 (DC Area)
> > +1-443-778-1093 (fax, Baltimore)
> > +1-240-228-1093 (fax, DC area)
> > edwin.hart@jhuapl.edu
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Bonham [mailto:Gary@bonhamdesigns.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 19:39
> > To: Unicode List
> > Subject: Unicode Fonts
> >
> > Are there any utilities, either freeware, shareware, or otherwise, which
> > will examine a given font and produce a report of which languages are
> > supported?
> >
> > Gary
> >
>
>
>
>
>



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