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Fonts and Unicode characters

List all characters in font

otfinfo

# sudo apt install lcdf-typetools
# or on Mac
# brew install lcdf-typetools
$ otfinfo -u /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Arial/arial.ttf | head
uni0020 3 space
uni0021 4 exclam
uni0022 5 quotedbl
uni0023 6 numbersign
uni0024 7 dollar
...
uniFEF9 1017 afii62838
uniFEFA 1018 afii62839
uniFEFB 1019 afii62840
uniFEFC 1020 afii62841
uniFFFC 863 uniFFFC
uniFFFF 0 .notdef

Perl Font::FreeType

$ sudo apt install libfont-freetype-perl
$ perl -C -MFont::FreeType -e 'Font::FreeType->new->face(shift)->foreach_char( sub {
          $c=$_->char_code();  printf "%04X %s\n", $c, chr($c);
        } );'  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Arial/arial.ttf
0020  
0021 !
0022 "
0023 #
0024 $
0025 %
0026 &
0027 '
...
FEFA ﻺ
FEFB ﻻ
FEFC ﻼ
FFFC 

List characters in file

View unicode codepoints for all letters in file on bash

file="some-file.txt"
perl -C -ne 'for (split //) {printf "U+%04X %s\n", ord, $_}' "$file" | sort -u
iconv -f utf8 -t utf32le "$file" | hexdump -v -e '"U+%04X\n"'        | sort -u
while IFS= read -d $'\000' -n 1 x; do printf 'U+%04X %s\n' "'$x" "$x"; done < "$file" | sort -u

List installed fonts having specific character

/docs/dokuwiki/data/attic/fonts_characters.1664289686.txt.gz · Last modified: 2022-09-27 16:41:26 by mi