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Questions tagged [glyph-substitution]

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Using font character substitutions in CSS or JS

I'm trying to access some alternative character glyphs using this font at the moment. The font's character subs are named like this: "A.alt", "A.alt1", "B.alt" etc. so they don't have a unicode to go after. I found this but when using Inspect…
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Browser support for UTF-8 symbols

I would like to replace some of the image icons in one of my websites with UTF-8 symbols. It seems that by far not every font in every browser supports all UTF-8 characters. Is there an overview anywhere which UTF-8 symbols are safe to use with the…
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Want to use glyph getting error in a C# WinUI 3 Desktop program

I am attempting to use font 'Segoe MDL2 Assets' glyphs in a c# WinUI desktop program. Microsoft docs specify this: You can assign a value from the Symbol enumeration, or a Unicode string that references a glyph in the Segoe MDL2 Assets font. You can…
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How to show alternative CJK glyphs in WIndows CE?

We are using the "Arial Unicode MS" font to display Chinese (CJK glyphs) text. Unfortunately one of the shown glyphs (U+76f4) is not recognized by our Chinese customers, since the default "style" in the font is Japanese. There is support in the font…
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How to use anchored pairs with fonts on Android

BACKGROUND: Font files have some advanced tables embedded in them that allowed glyph substitution, combined forms and anchored pairs. For English speakers, think about having the 3 characters "1", "/", and "2 and the font automatically combines them…
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pdfbox additionalGlyphs file can be used to add custom glyphs?

I am trying to edit pdfbox source code to read pdfs with custom embeded fonts. My question is: Can edit the code in pdfbox 2.0 to read from my glyphs from additionalGlyphs file by editing the file will this approach work? PS: I have never edited or…
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Debugging font substitution in windows UNIDRV

I am working on a UNIDRV-based printer driver, and am having an issue with font substitution. UNIDRV is not using any of the device fonts. All fonts are being downloaded to the printer one glyph at a time. Are there any logs for UNIDRV, and/or is…
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How do I make a font similar to the Segoe UI Emoji font?

So I'm wondering if it's possibile to make a sepreate font for Emojis/Glyphs. The type I need is the Segoe UI Emoji font in Windows 10/11. Is there any way to make a font with full-colored emojis/glyphs? I was trying to implement custom glyphs into…
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How to correctly print Indic (Telugu) text in QB64 on Windows 64-bit?

QB64phoenix edition on windows 64 bit is unable to correctly print indic (telugu) . No problem printing telugu text in notepad, mspaint and Libre Office . Is text shaping handled by QB64 or Windows ? how to know ? QB64 3.7 has _uprintstring with an…
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PDF Tamil writing using PDFBox

PDF viewers are not rendering all of the tamil letters as expected. Below is the actual content rendering in PDF viewer Below is the expected content From my understanding, these are the three cases requiring the substitution or change for Tamil…
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Is there an easy way to create fonts that use alternate Unicode glyphs

I would like to create a new font that has alternate Unicode glyphs for the letters to create secret codes for my nieces and nephews. So for example, I would be able to write them a letter in plain text (ABC), highlight the text and switch it to my…
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How to get glyph unicode representation of Unicode character

Windows use uniscribe library to substitute arabic and indi typed characters based on their location. The new glyph is still have the original unicode of the typed character althogh it has its dedicated representation in Unicode How to get the…
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fonttools reading cmap data

background: using fonttools i want to change a character like " ل "(U+0644) to it's initial form " ﻟ "(U+FEDF).i can do this in 4 steps: using fonttools, save font data as xml and then parse through it font = TTFont(fontPath) …
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