Re: Which fonts have lesser-used UTF-8 characters?

Reply: George Mitchell : "Re: Which fonts have lesser-used UTF-8 characters?"
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From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd_at_m5p.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 03:14:12 UTC

On 1/16/23 21:59, George Mitchell wrote:
> For instance, I'm happy to report that Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold,
> which I use in xfce4-terminal, has such relative oddities as ⇒ (U+21d2,
> rightward double arrow) and ≡ (U+2261, identical to), as well as U+23b5,
> bottom square bracket -- which isn't in the Fixed Width font in which I
> am composing this email.  But how would I find a font that has, let's
> say, U+1d4db, mathematical bold script capital L?  Is there a font
> character search tool that knows UTF-8 code points?         -- George

After some research with pypi.org and /usr/ports, it looks like maybe
print/py-fontaine is what I want, or maybe print/py-fonttools.  Sorry
for the noise ...                                             -- George