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Re: Grepping fonts for a specific glyph



On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:24 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On 28 January 2010 12:42, Camaleón wrote:

> I have some (=tens of) unusual fonts which may or may not have that
> glyph, I'd like to know.

¿"Tens" or "tons"? :-)

If there are less than 25 fonts is a relatively easy/fast task for doing 
it manually.
 
>> On GNOME you can get accurate info about availabe fonts that can
>> represent that character with "Char Map" (gucharmap) application.
>>
>>
> Yes, but I cannot search for fonts by glyph with that application.

You can search for the glyph code (00a5) and once selected, choose the 
desired font face from the dropdown menu to check its availabity.
 
> How about this, is there a script that will let me enter a character,
> and it will show me that character in all the fonts which have a glyph
> for it?

Not that I'm aware of :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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