Re: [Freetype] font catalog

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Brian Stell wrote:

> Pavel Kankovsky wrote:
> > ...
> > Have you tried to figure out where IE gets replacements for those 
> > blank glyphs?
> 
> No, it is a fairly hard find where another app gets it font from
> by looking at the glyphs. Trying to find out what another apps code 
> does is reverse engineering and is something that the open source 
> community should best avoid.

You can do a rather brutal experiment: keep uninstalling fonts until it
fails to display those characters. The last font you uninstalled before
it failed is probably the font it got the characters from.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."