Knowing which characters are actually available in a font

Thomas Dickey dickey at radix.net
Wed Apr 18 08:14:32 PDT 2007


On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:05:26PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:47:52AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > xterm makes a check for this situation - iirc, there's no X11 function which
> > does it (not even undocumented).
> 
> I was afraid of that.  Thanks.

no problem
> 
> 
> > Xft has an analogous function (not for the same fonts...), but since it's
> > mostly undocumented you would have to read the source code.  xterm uses
> > that, too.
> 
> Ok, I'll definitively check xterm's source.

xtermMissingChar, xtermXftMissing

	ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/

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