Re: Font support for utf8

John McCue <jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com> writes:

Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> wrote:

Is there anyway I can tell whether a particular uft8 code-point is
actually implemented in my terminal's current font?

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The only way I know is to write a small program to
print it.  That is what I did for various UTF-8
characters I like to use.
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For example, 0xe2 0x96 0x89 "▉" "Left Seven Eighths Block" is often
displayed as the i-don't-know-what-this-is glyph.

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FWIW, 7/8 does not print for me on Linux and *BSD, but
on all systems Emacs will print it plus many more that
does not show up on xterm and other terms.

That's a function of which font you're using.  I'm using xterm with
the Inconsolata font, which does have good UTF-8 support, including
the LEFT SEVEN EIGHTHS BLOCK character.  Any program should display
it correctly if you use a font that knows how to display it (assuming
the program itself handles UTF-8).

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