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

Michiel Kamermans pomax at nihongoresources.com
Sat Jan 30 19:25:29 CET 2010


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.

- Mike




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