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Print the characters a font provides
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#!/bin/bash | |
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# Print all characters a font provides | |
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# Example: | |
# $ ls-chars devicon | |
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# Note: | |
# \U in printf is not POSIX standard, therefore we need bash | |
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# See also: | |
# $ fc-query my-font.ttf | |
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# From: | |
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4458696/finding-out-what-characters-a-given-font-supports | |
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for range in $(fc-match --format='%{charset}\n' "$1"); do | |
for n in $(seq "0x${range%-*}" "0x${range#*-}"); do | |
printf "%04x\n" "$n" | |
done | |
done | while read -r n_hex; do | |
count=$((count + 1)) | |
printf "%-5s\U$n_hex\t" "$n_hex" | |
[ $((count % 10)) = 0 ] && printf "\n" | |
done | |
printf "\n" |
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