Re: Font support for utf8

On 2024-12-20, Richard Harnden wrote:

Hi,
>
Is there anyway I can tell whether a particular uft8 code-point is
actually implemented in my terminal's current font?
>
For example, 0xe2 0x96 0x89 "▉" "Left Seven Eighths Block" is often
displayed as the i-don't-know-what-this-is glyph.
>
Thanks.

There is ftdump, e.g.:

$ ftdump -C testfile.ttf
    ...
    0x2589 => 539 leftSevenEighthsBlock
    ...

(It's part of the freetype2-demos package on my system)

Tavis

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