From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sun Nov 08 2009 - 21:10:06 CST
This thread started with trying to find out whether a given font
supported a given character, and morphed into a discussion about font
embedding technologies and image scaling, which may not be the
particular caves the original requester wanted to explore.
I think it's clear that in the Unicode age, where it is a certainty that
no one font can cover all assigned characters, it would be nice to have
an API to tell whether a given character or string can be rendered in a
given font, or to enumerate the available fonts in which it can be
rendered. There's a CodeProject article to do something like this on
.NET [1], but this capability should be available for Web developers as
well.
[1] http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/FontGlyphSet.aspx
-- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ http://is.gd/2kf0s
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