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, 17:06 -0300 schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI:
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> > >      
> > 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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> Sorry, but I have no clue here. I think it can simply take a char,
> whatever its numerical value means (see below). I'd just make a
> font_is_suitable helper that defines a char array and iterates through
> it, checking pango_font_get_coverage foreach array member.
>
> I'm really interested in the meaning of a character's integer value,
> maybe you could explain this to us? :)
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Well, I did some experiments and the argument is as I expected, it's
numerical index in the Unicode table. To give an example, to check for
the character

U+0916 DEVANAGARI LETTER KHA

one passes 0x0916. I don't know why the argument is a gint, though, if
there is gunichar for that.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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