Re: How to check if a font has a given character?

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin bol com br>]

Christian Neumair wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 15.09.2005, 16:26 -0300 schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI:
>  
>
> >    I want to check if the font I'm using (in a GtkTextView, if that
> > matters) contains some characters (specifically, the "line-drawing"
> > characters). How can I do that with Pango? The function
> > pango_fc_font_has_char() apparently does exactly what I want, however I
> > couldn't discover how to get a PangoFcFont *.
> >    
>
> You should take a look at PangoCoverage, which can be requested using
> pango_font_get_coverage (). 
>
>  
Right. Looking at it, the function pango_coverage_get() seems promising.
However, I'm unsure about the index_ argument. Would that be index of
that I want to check, according the the Unicode tables?

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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