From: Addison Phillips (addison@yahoo-inc.com)
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 17:34:09 CDT
Hi Kim,
Use the Font class's "canDisplay(#int)" method and scan for suitable
code points? You could also use "canDisplayUpTo(#string)" with some
pre-baked resource strings that are representative of various scripts.
Addison
-- Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc. Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature. Peck, Jon wrote: > (A little off topic, but I hope you don’t mind.) > > > > A surprising (to me, anyway) number of TT or OT non-symbol fonts do > > not have glyphs for the ordinary roman characters. If you are > > creating a font chooser dialog in Java and want to display a sample > > string, how do you find a reasonable string of characters that do have > glyphs? > > > > Any suggestions appreciated. > > > > > > Jon K. Peck > > SPSS Inc. > > peck@spss.com <mailto:peck@spss.com> > > 312-651-3435 > > >
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