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https://github.com/googlefonts/pyfontaine

Python tool to check font files for language/character set support
https://github.com/googlefonts/pyfontaine

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Python tool to check font files for language/character set support

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pyfontaine

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|Latest PyPI Version| |Python| |Travis Build Status| |License: GPL v3|



pyfontaine analyses fonts for their language and character/glyph-set support.



It has a straightforward pythonic set definition format:



- `simple example `__

- `medium example `__

- `complex example `__



Additional definitions are downloaded from the Extensis, font-config and Unicode websites during installation, and can be updated without reinstalling.



Adding your own definitions is easy.

All files in the `internals `__ directory are auto-detected, so just add definition files there.



Installation

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macOS:



First, install Python and the `pip `__ python package manager. This is installed by default with `homebrew `__ python, so, install homebrew, then install the neccessary depedencies (`PyICU `__) as follows::



    brew install python icu4c pkg-config;

    export PATH="/usr/local/opt/icu4c/bin:/usr/local/opt/icu4c/sbin:$PATH";

    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/pkgconfig";

    export CC="$(which gcc)" CXX="$(which g++)";

    pip3 install --no-binary=:pyicu: pyicu;



Debian:



    apt-get install libicu-dev



Install the latest release easily with pip::



    pip3 install fontaine --user;



To install the latest development version::



    pip3 install git+https://github.com/googlefonts/pyfontaine.git#egg=fontaine --user;



Usage

-----



Given a list of space separated font filenames, it returns a report with some general metadata and a language support analysis::



    pyfontaine font.ttf;



Given a list of space separated unicode characters, or unicode values, it returns a list of character sets that include that character::



    pyfontaine 0x0061;

    pyfontaine ğ ø ∂;



Similarly you can find out if a font supports specific characters by also giving the filename::



    pyfontaine U+C480 U+C481 font.ttf;



To output font reports in various formats::



    pyfontaine --xml font.ttf;

    pyfontaine --json font.ttf;

    pyfontaine --csv font.ttf;

    pyfontaine --wiki font.ttf;



The `--wiki` format produces a MediaWiki table

(`example `__)



To only show character sets from different collections::



    pyfontaine --collections all font.ttf; # default

    pyfontaine --collections pyfontaine font.ttf;

    pyfontaine --collections uniblocks font.ttf;

    pyfontaine --collections extensis font.ttf;

    pyfontaine --collections fontconfig font.ttf;

    pyfontaine --collections cldr font.ttf;

    pyfontaine --collections subsets font.ttf;



To only show specific character sets::



    pyfontaine --set africaan,adobe_latin_3 font.ttf;



To print a list of all the missing unicode values from each set::



    pyfontaine --missing --set adobe_latin_3 font.ttf;



 To output visualisations of the coverage using `Hilbert curves `__ (thanks for the idea, `Øyvind 'pippin' Kolås `__!):



    pyfontaine --show_hilbert font.ttf; ls -l coverage_pngs/;



 The PNG files are stored in a new directory, ``coverage_pngs``, under the current directory.



Update collection data

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



You can update remote collections data when you are online::



    pyfontaine --update-data 1;



Python Module

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It has a python module called ``fontaine``



Making a release on PyPI

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To release a new version on PyPI, create and push a new git tag with a version number following the [semver](https://www.semver.org) versioning scheme.



Then set up a ``~/.pypirc`` file::



    [distutils]

    index-servers=pypi

    

    [pypi]

    repository = https://pypi.python.org/pypi

		

		[server-login]

    username = user

    password = password



Then run::



    python setup.py build;

    python setup.py sdist upload;



Contributing

------------



Your contributions under `the GPLv3 `__ are welcome!



pyfontaine is a python reimplementation of

`Fontaine `__ by Ed Trager, and has been made by

`Vitaly Volkov `__,

`Dave Crossland `__,

`Mikhail Kashkin `__ and

`Felipe Sanches `__.



Thanks

------



We would like to thank some upstream projects that make pyfontaine even

more useful:



* `Thomas Phinney `__ for the `WebINK Character

  Sets `__



* `Behdad Esfabod `__ for the `font-config languages

  definitions `__



* Unicode Consortium for the `Unicode Blocks

  `__



Dependencies

------------



- Mac OS X requires the XCode Command Line Tools to be installed

- `fonttools `__ (common) *or*

  `freetype-py `__ (fast)

- `lxml `__

- `PyICU `__

- `simpleHilbertCurve `__

- `matplotlib `__

- `tabulate `__

- `requests `__



Related Projects

----------------



-  `fontaine `__

-  `fontbakery `__

-  `libunicodenames `__



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