The shape of a character as rendered (e.g in a font)
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preferred glyph fallback font
[Problem] When rendering a string of multiple languages, the font selected might not support all glyphs. Is it possible to specify a list of fonts to test the glyph through?
[Context] The system is Pango + Fontconfig, my first guess this is…

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Extract Font Glyphs
I have this problem across my mind, any help will be appreciated.
Is there are PHP function, or library that can extract some glyphs form a font file?
Edit:
By means to extract some glyphs, I wanted to create a new font file based on the glyphs…

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How to fix a SVG Glyph with wrong position and size?
I have a SVG file with many icons:

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Unicode character not rendered in webfont
I'm using Google's Noto Sans as a standard webfont. I also want the browser to display special characters like arrows and bullets, using the webfont.
However, Chrome Dev Tools tell me, that e.g.
the unicode character 'BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE'…

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How can I horizontally center a letter in CSS ignoring kerning (considering only glyph edges)?
I'm very doubtful this is possible but I'd like to center a single letter (within a circle) considering only the horizontal edges of the glyph.
In particular the uppercase J in Droid Sans is kerned such that the vertical bar is centered, but the…

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Writing correct bitmap file results
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I have been creating a font renderer for directx9 to draw text, The actual problem got caused by another problem, I was wondering why the texture didnt draw anything (my wrong bitmap), so i tried to copy the bitmap into a file and realized…

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How to find a .TTF font that contains a certain glyph?
Does anyone have suggestions on finding a .ttf font that contains − ? This is neither - or –.

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Centering a glyph icon within a line
I have an glyph icon with some text right next to it within a link. Here's jsFiddle.
The bottom part of the text is aligned with the bottom part of the icon but I'm not happy with that. I want to display the icon and then align the text in its…

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How to embed multiple glyphs
I have the following glyph (on glyph made out of few) generated by icomoon

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Icomoon glyph on group grid Extjs action column not working?
I have an issue on showing icomoon glyph on grid action columns using sencha architect in extjs 5.0 application. I am using group grid here. Glyphs are showing nicely on any ext button btw.
I have made an overwrite class for Ext.grid.column.Action…

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Icomoon Glyphs in Sencha Architect ExtJs Application not working
I am using Sencha Architect 3.0 for my extjs 5 application (not touch). I need to implement glyph using icomoon fonts. I am doing the following steps.
I have got icon set and its styles, already working in its demo.html page.
I have copied fonts…

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Do most browsers not recognize font glyphs defined in svg files?
I have several svg files with embedded font glyphs for certain characters. If a user has the font installed on their machine, the browser correctly displays the fonts. However, if it is not presently installed on a machine, the glyphs are not…

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Visual C++/MFC: getting Japanese characters to work without UNICODE
I have software originally developed 20 years ago in Visual C++ using MFC without UNICODE. Currently strings are held either in char[] or CString, and it works on English and Japanese Windows PCs until Japanese characters are used, as these tend to…

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CharCodes for glyphs in a custom font from http://fontello.com
How can I find the charCode for a glyph in a custom font?
For a light-weight web site, I have created a custom font containing just the 5 icons from FontAwesome that I need, using http://fontello.com. I am hoping to use these to replace the…

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Displaying Unicode Characters
I already searched for answers to this sort of question here, and have found plenty of them -- but I still have this nagging doubt about the apparent triviality of the matter.
I have read this very interesting an helpful article on the subject:…

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