Re: Getting victory hands symbol from Wingdings

Andreas Falkenhahn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In other words: I don't understand the point of FreeType creating a synthesized Unicode charmap that isn't usable at all. Why does it create such a Unicode charmap at all then? Or is this supposed to work correctly in newer versions and maybe just happens to be broken in 2.5.4? 

On 18.08.2020 at 15:15 Sascha Brawer wrote:

> The fonttools python library [1] comes with ttx [2], a script for
> printing the tables inside a font to XML. After you’ve installed
> fonttools, something like [2] will print the character-to-glyph maps
> in your font. That output (just the cmap table should be enough)
> might help with debugging what’s going on here.


> [1] https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools
> [2] https://fonttools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ttx.html
> [3] ttx -t cmap -o -  wingding.ttf



> Best,


> — Sascha



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