From cbf4c8fd87ec80cf168a15cf308274e271fef5b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tiyn Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:57:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] linux/font config: added section to find font for character --- wiki/linux/font_configuration.md | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/wiki/linux/font_configuration.md b/wiki/linux/font_configuration.md index d7c0a8c..cf03736 100644 --- a/wiki/linux/font_configuration.md +++ b/wiki/linux/font_configuration.md @@ -53,7 +53,17 @@ Follow the section on [adding new fonts](#adding-new-font-to-configuration) and This section addresses important commands and packages for the configuration of fonts. -### Show Characters Of A Font +### Display Available Fonts for Character + +To list all fonts that are able to display a specific unicode character use the following command. +`` is the code for one (for example `26AA`) or more (for example `26AA,26AB`) unicode +characters. + +```sh +fc-list :charset= +``` + +### Show Characters of a Font Using [FontForge](https://fontforge.org/en-US/) all characters of a given `.ttf` file can be shown. The following shows the structure of a command to call FontForge with a file.