Re: [libreoffice-users] Font charts

Ken Springer wrote:
> On 10/14/13 12:46 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > On 10/14/2013 12:44 PM, Gabriel Risterucci wrote:
> > > 2013/10/14 Ken Springer <snowshed1@q.com>
> > >
> > > > Back in the 8-bit computer days, it was easy to find simple charts for
> > > > various things, like this simple ASCII font chart.
> > > ​Ha. Things were even simpler, english used only 7bits for useful
> > > characters...​
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a similar simple chart for modern/contemporary
> > > fonts?
> > > >   Everything I've found so far, for charts, are far more complex
> > > > than I'm
> > > > looking for.
> > > I don't know of an exact solution that would allow you to both specify a
> > > font and a set of characters, but on most systems you can get some
> > > kind of
> > > character maps to display characters using a specific font. For
> > > example on
> > > windows, ​​you can run the "charmap" program. I don't remember the name,
> > > but I know there is something similar under KDE/Linux.
> >
> >  From you posting, you use Mac, correct?
>
> I am.  But when I read Gabriel's post, I realized I'd forgotten to
> include a link, which is now in a follow up post.  But here it is again:
>   http://www.asciitable.com/
>
> > I am not using Mac, but there has to be some font viewer available for
> > Mac.
> >
> > What are you looking to do with it?
>
> Make money????   LOL, I'm on a roll here.
>
> On the serious side...  If you look at the ASCII table link, you can see
> that it's easy to scan the char column until you find "space" for
> instance, then know the Dec code is32.
>
> I just want to do similar for all the characters in a contemporary font.
>   Then I know the "code" to use for that extended character.  I found a
> website, which sadly I can't find now, even with History in the browser,
> that had a plethora of charts.  Thought I'd bookmarked it, but also
> apparently not.  :-(

Not sure if it's the same one, but I've found this handy for finding 
Unicode characters:
  http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/

It doesn't show the whole range in one table, as that would be quite 
some table, but you can view a whole block at once. Not all fonts 
contain all Unicode characters, so you may find that some of the more 
esoteric characters don't display properly or at all.

> In another thread, I think here in LO, there was essentially a
> typography discussion.  Two spaces after a period, or one?  In that
> thread, I suggested trying the AutoCorrect function to get what you
> want.  Now I'm going to try my own suggestion!   LOL  So, I need to know
> where the em space is, and then see if I can enter that into AutoCorrect.

Using the search on the above site, searching for "em space" shows that 
it's U+2003 (that's unicode character 2003 in hex, or 8195 decimal)

Mark.

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