Finding out whether fonts support certain characters

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Frank Niessink wrote:

Hi,

I have a ListCtrl that has to display text with certain 'unusual'
symbols in it, like an arrow symbol (?). Some users report that the
arrow is displayed as a little box, which suggests that the font the
ListCtrl is using does not contain the arrow symbol. Is there some way
to find out whether the font is able to display certain symbols?

Not that I know of.

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
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Since the choice of the symbol corresponding to the given ord() is in fact left to the will (or whim) of the designer, is it possible to confine the choice of fonts in the ListCtrl to the ones who have the proper symbols?

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2008/2/20, Robin Dunn robin@alldunn.com:

Frank Niessink wrote:

Hi,

I have a ListCtrl that has to display text with certain ‘unusual’
symbols in it, like an arrow symbol (?). Some users report that the
arrow is displayed as a little box, which suggests that the font the

ListCtrl is using does not contain the arrow symbol. Is there some way
to find out whether the font is able to display certain symbols?

Not that I know of.

–
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman

http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

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