Re: Seeing "missing glyphs"

You may also find the following useful from my list of utilities:

[1] UniView. Allows you to view code blocks from Unicode either using font
glyphs or using the graphics used by Mark's tool (click on the 2nd icon from
the left on the 3rd line from the top). One useful application: you can
drop a string into the 'cut & paste' box, and see all the individual
characters.

http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/utilities.html#uniview


[2] Unicode character pickers. The collections of characters provided for
most pickers are viewable as font glyphs or graphics. This is particularly
useful in that it enables you to see what you are doing when constructing a
string of Unicode characters in scripts for which fonts are difficult to
obtain (eg. Bengali or Malayalam).

http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/utilities.html#pickers


(Limitations: All of these approaches fail, of course, when you want to
represent *text* rather than just characters in scripts that use combining
characters, ligatures, shaping, etc. Also, the set of graphics on the
Unicode site doesn't cover all current Unicode characters.)

Hth,
RI

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Richard Ishida
W3C

contact info:
http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/

W3C Internationalization:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@...]
> Sent: 14 April 2004 12:50
> To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Seeing "missing glyphs"
>
> Nicholas Bodley scripsit:
>
> > Macchiato has a delightful Web page...
> > <http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/show.html>
> > [...]
> > I'm curious to know where it gets its glyphs from! One
> thinks there's
> > something like a complete Unicode font hiding somewhere.
>
> Of course there is: the set of fonts used to render the
> Unicode book itself. The wonders of This Frame/View Frame
> Source on Mozilla (right-click on the image to get this)
> reveal that the glyphs are being pulled directly from the
> Unicode site as individual gifs -- a slow and painful process.
>
> The underlying font glyphs are contributed by various font
> creators, especially Michael Everson, for use in the Unicode
> book. There is, however, no license granted to use them
> outside that context.
>
> AFAIK the best-maintained full Unicode font is James Kass's
> Code2000 (the
> BMP) and Code2001 (the SMP), available at
> http://home.att.net/~jameskass/ .
> Code2000 is shareware, and worth many times the US$5 James is asking.
> The coverage of Han characters is limited, but otherwise it's
> pretty close to comprehensive.
>
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