Is there a way to determine whether or not a font can render a particular Unicode character in Cocoa? Alternatively, is it possible to specify the default substitute character?
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Is there a way to determine whether or not a font can render a particular Unicode character in Cocoa? Alternatively, is it possible to specify the default substitute character?
You can use CGFontGetGlyphWithGlyphName() for iOS older versions of iOS (2.0). Apple doesn’t seem to document the glyph names but I believe they correspond to this Adobe list:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/opentype/glyphlist.txt
For example, the glyph for é (U+00E9) is named “eacute” and the code to get the glyph would be: