Hey,
A lot of glyphs unavailable in Keyboard, in case of Arabic fonts, so user need to insert it to write a words inside test desktop font, as I suggest in the picture below:
Inserting Glyphs in Test Desktop Font
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Re: Inserting Glyphs in Test Desktop Font
You can only use characters (e.g. glyphs with a codepoint), but you can already type those, right?
Re: Inserting Glyphs in Test Desktop Font
Hello Erwin,
My Arabic keyboard covered only Arabic Presentation Form B, some fonts that I had made covered Arabic presentation form A (this used Arabic glyphs but for other languages like Urdu...etc) that's will mean I couldn't test it, because it's character unavailable in my keyboard. I could test it after exporting font to windows, then used Microsoft word (by inserting symbols), but the suggestion is to make this issue from inside FontCreator.
My Arabic keyboard covered only Arabic Presentation Form B, some fonts that I had made covered Arabic presentation form A (this used Arabic glyphs but for other languages like Urdu...etc) that's will mean I couldn't test it, because it's character unavailable in my keyboard. I could test it after exporting font to windows, then used Microsoft word (by inserting symbols), but the suggestion is to make this issue from inside FontCreator.
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Re: Inserting Glyphs in Test Desktop Font
I will add this request to the to-do list.
Re: Inserting Glyphs in Test Desktop Font
Nice, Thank you
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Re: Inserting Glyphs in Test Desktop Font
Perhaps a drop down character selection grid like in the 'Character Map' program somewhere in the preview panel would be quite useful in a limited number of circumstances (for me at least) as an alternative to typing for more arcane languages like Georgian and Armenian because I only have a Latin keyboard. my 2¢