I'm trying to figure out how to enumerate ALL of the characters in a True Type Font.

I have a TTF font - "Pangolin" which is comprised of the COMPONENTS of Japanese Kanji, NOT the Kanji themselves. These are the elements that make up kanji...

I believe it was created based on a basic ASCII "abcdefABCDEF123" etc., as I can create a text file using the above alpha numeric characters, change the font to Pangolin and I see the individual components displayed as kanji bushuu in the same order as what is displayed by the Windows settings Font control, but I need to see ALL of the characters.

I'm sure this is doable...

???

CodePudding user response：

You can use utilities like BabelMap or ViewGlyph to see all of the characters in a font.

For APIs, IDWriteFontFace1::GetUnicodeRanges is recommended. There's also the legacy GDI API GetFontUnicodeRanges, but that is limited in that it can't report when a font supports characters beyond the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane. See this topic for more discussion of the APIs.

CodePudding user response：

Thank you for the info.

I ended up downloading a few "FontViewer" utilities and it turns out that all I needed was a text file with all 256 of the ASCII codes, not just the alpha numerics.

Changing the font type then provided the mapping to the characters I needed to see.