Re: Font Samples

From: Addison Phillips (addison@yahoo-inc.com)
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 17:34:09 CDT

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Hi Kim,

Use the Font class's "canDisplay(#int)" method and scan for suitable
code points? You could also use "canDisplayUpTo(#string)" with some
pre-baked resource strings that are representative of various scripts.

Addison

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Addison Phillips
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Peck, Jon wrote:
> (A little off topic, but I hope you don’t mind.)
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> A surprising (to me, anyway) number of TT or OT non-symbol fonts do
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> not have glyphs for the ordinary roman characters. If you are
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> creating a font chooser dialog in Java and want to display a sample
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> string, how do you find a reasonable string of characters that do have 
> glyphs?
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> Any suggestions appreciated.
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> Jon K. Peck
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> SPSS Inc.
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> peck@spss.com <mailto:peck@spss.com>
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