https://github.com/drastus/unicover

Command-line tool displaying Unicode characters coverage of system fonts
https://github.com/drastus/unicover

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Command-line tool displaying Unicode characters coverage of system fonts

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/drastus/unicover
• Owner: drastus
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-12-16T19:49:38.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-08-20T19:56:10.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-23T18:50:13.475Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: fonts, python, unicode, unicode-coverage
• Language: Python
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• Size: 30.3 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

          
**UniCover** is a simple command-line tool displaying information about Unicode coverage of system fonts. It should work on systems that utilize Fontconfig (Linux and other Unix-like).

Dependencies: Python-fontconfig, freetype-py.

Installation

============

In most cases issuing the following command will be sufficient:

.. code-block:: bash

    pip3 install --user UniCover

If you get an error from Python Fontconfig library, try installing its header files first, eg. for Debian or Ubuntu:

.. code-block:: bash

    sudo apt install libfontconfig1-dev

Usage

=====

Basic usage

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**Display all characters contained given font family or font file**

Returns list of characters grouped by Unicode blocks.

.. code-block:: bash

    unicover -f 'Liberation Sans'

    unicover -f /usr/share/fonts/TTF/LiberationSans-Bold.ttf

    unicover -f 'Liberation Sans' -g    # lists only Unicode blocks

    unicover -f 'Liberation Sans' -o    # omits summary line (total number of characters)

You can discover what fonts are installed in your system using Fontconfig:

.. code-block:: bash

    fc-list : family        # lists font families

    fc-list : file family   # lists font files with families they belong to

**List all system fonts that contain the specified character**

.. code-block:: bash

    unicover -c ₹

    unicover -c 54f6

    unicover -c ₹ -g        # lists only font families

    unicover -c ₹ -o        # omits summary line (total number of fonts)

System fonts summaries

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**Display all Unicode blocks supported by the system fonts**

.. code-block:: bash

    unicover -g

**List all characters supported by the system fonts**

.. code-block:: bash

    unicover -l

    unicover -gl            # group characters by Unicode block

Note: output will be very long.