[wxPython-users] Finding out whether fonts support certain characters

Raffaello Barella barbarossa.platz at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 15:00:40 PST 2008


Since the choice of the symbol corresponding to the given ord() is in fact
left to the will (or whim) of the designer, is it possible to confine the
choice of fonts in the ListCtrl to the ones who have the proper symbols?

2008/2/20, Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com>:
>
> Frank Niessink wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a ListCtrl that has to display text with certain 'unusual'
> > symbols in it, like an arrow symbol (?). Some users report that the
> > arrow is displayed as a little box, which suggests that the font the
> > ListCtrl is using does not contain the arrow symbol. Is there some way
> > to find out whether the font is able to display certain symbols?
>
>
> Not that I know of.
>
>
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