Previewing unicode fonts on Linux

linux unicode fonts utility
Basel Shishani picture Basel Shishani · Mar 23, 2012 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

Is there a tool on Linux that would allow me to preview Unicode fonts. Fontforge allows me to see the available glyphs and Unicode ranges, but the display is very crude. Gnome font viewer shows only the Latin range.

Ideally the tool would accept a string in a given encoding and then show the preview for the string.

Regards.

Answer

user1276209 picture user1276209 · Mar 23, 2012

GNOME Character Map (installed on most gnome-friendly systems, try charmap) can give you what you need.

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