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Most of the font manager tools display characters of a font grouped by subsets of the Unicode character set. Is there a tool that displays the characters grouped by the particular code page that a given font supports? I.e. for the font Arial
, display all characters that are part of the Windows 1252
code page.
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The only program that does exactly this is Windows Character Map:
The problem with Character Map is that:
- I'm not sure how do entries in the menu map to actual code pages. For the
Windows*
ones, one could use this table (i.e.Windows: Central Europe
maps toWindows-1250
), but what about theDOS
ones - certain code pages are missing in the menu
- inside of the properties of the font file, there is a list of code pages that a given font supports. Seeing those code pages would be helpful, if possible
- there is no way that I've found to see the character code from the code page selected, only the UTF-16 character code is shown (
U+XXXX
), though for this one could use the conversion table.
1The Character Map (CharMap) utility of Windows has such a feature. But do you mean a font editing tool? – Jukka K. Korpela – 2013-12-30T14:46:06.017
@JukkaK.Korpela Thanks for the response; I've updated the question. The reason I've asked the question was to understand
roughly
, how AltCodes (and actually, fonts in general) work. There are at least three ways one can enter AltCodes to a given program (+/0/non0 prefixed) and each of those methods may possibly yield different results. I.e. the + prefix uses the UTF-16 character code of the character (I guess) while the 0 prefix uses the character code of the code page associated with the currently set Input Language. Thought that maybe by understanding fonts more I'll also grasp the AltC's. – colemik – 2013-12-30T15:42:31.717