[XeTeX] Finding out if a font supports a particular Unicode character and using it

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Thu Feb 4 17:57:20 CET 2010



François Charette wrote:

> The terminal in Windows does not support Unicode. You can thus change
> line 67-68 to:
>
> print "The glyph $uni is available in the following fonts:\n";
>
> to avoid the incorrect display of the glyph. Then you can also delete
> line 23 with the binmode setting.

Thank you : a definite improvement.  I tried to add SimHei
as a CMD console font, but with zero success (I suspect
CMD in XP is not Unicode-compatible), so I will just have
to make do with hex values for now.

** Phil.


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