[libreoffice-users] Re: Insert Date - Special Characters - Scanning

John Kaufmann wrote
> On 2020-06-29 13:46, Philip Jackson wrote:
> > The special characters listed are font dependent. For example, the symbol
> > you are looking for is not shown under mathematical operators in the
> > 'Liberation Serif' font but if you select 'Linux Biolinum O' font, you
> > will see it listed as hexadecimal U+226F or decimal 8815       ≯
> >
> > Of course, you may not have Biolinum on your machine, but check under the
> > various fonts you do have.
>
> Very nice, Philip. Do you know of a quick way to query which fonts in
> system include a particular character (that is short of manually testing
> each font)?

For Windows users, the freeware BabelMap utility (Andrew West's BabelStone
project) is helpful. Do this lookup from its Fonts -> 'Font Coverage...'
dialog.

Project page is here: https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html



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