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

[François Charette]

On 04/02/2010 14:29, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>
> Very successful : merci bien, François !  I had bever used
> PPM before, but it seems a useful tool.
>
>> K:\Documents and Settings\Chaa006.PC87-CC\My Documents>perl 
>> glyphlookup-PT.pl 2605
>> Looking in 174 system fonts ...
>> The glyph ★ (0x2605) is available in the following fonts:

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.

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