Re: TOP {LEFT,RIGHT} HALF BRACKETs; was Re (2): Box-drawing characters.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:44:23 -0800, peasthope wrote:

> From:	Camaleon <noelamac@gmail.com>
> Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:02:19 +0000 (UTC)
>> What kind of symbols do you wnat to render?
> 
> I had referred to box-drawing characters.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character

Mmm... okay, so I was in the right path...

Note there's a slightly difference between the URL you send:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_drawing_character
                                ^

And mine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character
                                ^

Look like the same but they're not ;-)

> This morning I see that the required characters are U+2E22 TOP LEFT HALF
> BRACKET and U+2E23 TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET which are not in box-drawing. 
> HALF BRACKETs are visible here.
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Unicode/Supplemental_Punctuation

Ah, let's see... I see nothing but gibberish (well, 2e18 and 2e2e render 
fine)
 
>> Anyone of these?
> 
> ?

You did not specify what unicode character you wanted to get, sir, and my 
crystal ball was having a rest so I had to make a wild guess.

> Usually a font is installed or not.  Having a subset of a font installed
> would be unusual.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2e22/fontsupport.htm

>> To get "†”›" I have to type "ctrl+shift+u+251B"
> 
> That's ISO/IEC 10646-2011, U+251B BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY UP AND LEFT.

I picked up one randomly.

> I'm trying to find where U+2E22 TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET and U+2E23 TOP
> RIGHT HALF BRACKETSo reside.  Other than possibly ASCII, fonts aren't in
> the kernel nor in kernel modules.  Fonts in Debian must be in packages
> but which package contains the glyphs for U+2E22 and U+2E23?
> 
> This system has the characters but
> peter@dalton:~$ fc-list | grep Suppl
> peter@dalton:~$ fc-list | grep Punct
> peter@dalton:~$
> is no help.  Perusing the whole output of fc-list is no improvement.

See the above link. There's a list of fonts that seem to have support for 
the said unicode characters. You can grab more information for other 
unicode characters from that same site, for instance:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2E22/browsertest.htm

Mmm, I have tried with DejaVu Sans inside OOo Writer and it does not 
work, it renders a square symbol :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón