I have a long list of glyphs with various Unicode points across several Unicode blocks that I need to represent in a monospaced form (which mean with a single font). How I can know which glyph the font does not support in that list?
I tried Microsoft Word, Open Office, Notepad++ and some others, but even ᴡindows® Notepad tries to substitute unknown characters from glyphs in other fonts instead of using the replacement character directly. Sometimes it even substitute characters whereas they exist in the font
Opening a font editor and checking Unicode points one by one would definitely takes hours.
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Today I learnt about a new tool, which “was made just for your question”. It was published in 2011 but I am sharing it here, less than one hour after I tested it:
http://blog.tavultesoft.com/2011/07/character-identifier-tool.html
Hope this helps, it is an .exe so will probably need Windows.
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