I'm writing a TTF parser. For a better understanding of the TTF format, I used TTX to extract the ".notdef" glyph data of C:\Windows\calibri.ttf as follow. <TTGlyph name=".notdef" xMin="0" yMin...

For an application I need to draw text/glyphs as a vector based path. Using GDI+ GraphicsPath and Graphics.DrawPath or WPF FormattedText and Geometry works fine and I get the output as shown in the...

I just found that when UIwebview get dealloc-ed, most of the memory it used doesn't get totally recycled. After doing some profile, i found most of the still alive memory are Font glyph cache(the p...

In WPF4, how can i calculate the 'Size' of FormattedText or GlyphRun for a drawingvisual. I'm using drawingvisual in a canvas. When i change text size or text, changes occur but Actual Width and H...

Example 'BLACK STAR' ★ (U+2605) .a:after { content: "\2605"; position:absolute; } .b:after { content: "★"; position:absolute; } Demo : http://jsfiddle.net/l2aelba/vBjxX/ Why someone/most r...

In a string in objective-c if I say something like [myStr length]; it returns a number which is the number of bytes but what can I use to return the number of characters in a string. For example: ...

Some fonts on Google Web Fonts support multiple "character sets". The thing is, if the web font I use only serves the "latin" glyphs, users who translate the page to a language whose glyphs aren'...

Does there exist a table or something similar which shows how many bytes different languages need on average to represent a visible character (glyph) when the encoding is utf8?

Unicode has a million icon-like glyphs, but they're not always easy to search by, since I don't always know what they look like. Is there a Unicode glyph that looks like a "key"? Or is there...

How can we get UIBezierPath from a character using Glyph in iOS SDK. I had gone through this, but It is showing double line and I want only single line.. As I am new in this research..Please help...

Issue for text elements that are adjacent to icon elements, the glyph height is not aligned with the icon height. the text elements are styled by CSS with font-size: 20px; and have consistent widt...

Just wondering whether anybody has tried to hack into WPF DocumentViewer in order to make it more useful. I've spent almost a week already trying to create more powerful API for this control based ...

I have searched a lot and tried much but I can not find the proper solution. I wonder is there any approach for determining exact glyph height in specified font? I mean here when I want to deter...

Lets say I have the characters Ú, Ù, Ü. All of them are similar glyphically to the English U. Is there some list or algorithm to do this: Given a Ú or Ù or Ü return the English U Given a English...

I dont like to ask too many questions in relation to the appearance of components, but these days appearance in Applications seems just as important. Anyway, please see the below images: Both a...

I've run into a bit of a snag, is it just me or can you not assign an image from a resource to TSpeedButton's glyph without a hideous black outline as shown below? I've assigned it exactly the sam...

I am working on a translation software add in (C#, .NET 2.0) which displays translated texts in a emulated device display. I have to check if all translated texts could be displayed with specified ...

What is a glyph and what do we use it for especially in context of silverlight and xaml?

Is it possible to load a font at runtime in Silverlight for the Glyphs object. I've tried all sorts -I've set the fonturi to a web location at runtime - no joy -I've tried the same approach as tex...

Let me first state what I am trying to achieve: To create a patch for the Android OS to enable it to display Arabic/Hebrew correctly. Both of these languages are Right-to-Left (RTL) and their scri...

My application needs to display "orphaned" combining characters. I would like to use the same format as the "official" unicode charts, using the dotted circle placeholder. See, ...