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

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sat Jan 30 19:59:41 CET 2010


On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:25:29AM -0800, Michiel Kamermans wrote:
> On 1/30/2010 10:08 AM, Peter Baker wrote:
> >I should have mentioned, I've been assuming that it's simply
> >impossible to run this on Windows, since it requires FontForge,
> >which is *nix down to the toes. It should "just work" on Cygwin,
> >but Cygwin users will find that the standard FontForge install has
> >no Python support at all; so they must either build from source or
> >just forget it.
> 
> There's an unofficial mingw compiled version of font forge for
> windows users (linked to on the font forge page for windows
> installs), although I don't know if that has python support in it or
> not.

No, it doesn't.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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