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Registered: 2018-06-04

Posts: 89

How to efficiently get the unicode value of icon fonts?

I use icon fonts like FontAwesome, not for creating webpages, but only for local documents and system customization. Now if I want to type a specific icon, I have to look at their online cheatsheet or use the program fontforge to look up the unicode value. But both ways are extremely slow and painful. Is there a simple method to view and query icon fonts?

Siji (a bitmap icon font) provides a simple view script for local use, which is very nice. Are there any ttf icon fonts which are more sane than FontAwesome?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,373

Re: How to efficiently get the unicode value of icon fonts?

If the font is using the Private_Use_Areas for the glyph you want then it is particular to that font.