From: Bob Hallissy (Bob_Hallissy@sil.org)
Date: Wed May 09 2007 - 03:17:14 CDT
Jon Peck wrote on 08/05/2007 22:24:04:
> 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?
I don't know about Java, but I do know about TT/OT fonts: Most contain, in
their OS/2 table, the ulUnicodeRange and ulCodePageRange bit vectors that
should give you a pretty good hint about what characters you might use to
display a sample. See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/os2.htm
for detail.
In case it helps: in the Windows API these are referred to as the
"fontsignature". See the GetTextCharsetInfo function:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776451.aspx
Regards,
Bob
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