Font Awesome

[Charles E Buchwald]

Hi Guglielmo,
I think I used to use a version of PopChar several years ago...
OK, I've downloaded the trial. Looks useful.
If I select FontAwesome from within PopChar, I'm still only seeing those 57 characters. I suppose these are the ones with low unicode values?
Is there some trick to PopChar that would allow me to view "high unicode values"?

I did find this: http://rorohiko.blogspot.mx/2011/11/i-am-using-lion-where-is-my-trusted.html
... with instructions on setting the native character viewer to show the Unicode tables.
And also many useful subsets I didn't know about, such as "Sign/Standard Symbols" and "Pictographs"

Still not seeing the full unicode character set with a specific font, though.

Any ideas?

- Charles

On 2012-07-04, at 10:30 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote:

> Hi Charles,
> normally I use also PopChar (http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/) and he correctly show the unicode characters ...
> 
> Much better than the native character viewer ... but ... try before buy ... ;-)
> 
> Guglielmo
> 
> 
> On 04.07.2012 17:22, Charles E Buchwald wrote:
>> So for those of us without FontLab Studio, is there a Mac utility that is useful for showing unicode values?
>> Or perhaps someone has created a LC stack for doing so?
>> 
>> I was just looking at the Character Viewer built in to OS X Lion, but it does not show unicode values... unless of course I'm missing something, which is probable.
>> 
>> - Charles
>> 
>> On 2012-07-04, at 1:06 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jacque,
>>> the FontAwesome.ttf that you find into the font folder is NOT empty ... just appear empty if you use quick-look, but I opened the font on Mac with "FontLab Studio" and all characters are there, just with high unicode values (most are between F000 and F0EA, plus one in F200).
>>> 
>>> Hope this help ...
>>> 
>>> Guglielmo
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 04.07.2012 07:13, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>>> On 7/3/12 6:15 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote:
>>>>> Whoops. Didn't mean to use that subject line... have to stop drinking at lunch time... here's another try.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> A client just directed me to Font Awesome.
>>>>>> http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
>>>>>> I'm not familiar with Twitter Bootstrap, for which it was designed, but it looks immediately useful for LC.
>>>>>> It's basically a very large monochrome icon collection in vector format, and also collected as a TrueType font.
>>>>>> I expect it may be useful for both desktop and mobile development.
>>>>>> Seems like it could interesting with the new field capabilities.
>>>> Great find! I downloaded it but the ttf webfont file is empty and the desktop one has only a handful of icons in it. The PDF is okay but I can't extract the vectors from there. I'd rather have the font; anyone know how to make those other formats work on a Mac?