Re: Grepping fonts for a specific glyph
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:32:56 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to know which of my installed fonts have glyphs for a specific
> Unicode character (U+05D0). How can I do that?
Use imagemagick! Something like
for fontf in `mlocate -i .ttf`; do
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 48 \
-font $fontf label:<Unicode_character> ouput_pic($fontf).gif
done
to produce one pic file for each font you have then check them out one by
one visually.
Ref:
Imagemagick Unicode Text
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#unicode
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