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Applying Custom Character Filters

FontCapture also allows you to specify a custom range of characters to be encoded by using a character filter file. On the Range dialog you may select the Use Custom Filter File checkbox. When this checkbox is selected, you can type the path and filename of a file to be used as a final character filter. In other words, characters selected above will be verified against the filter list and only those characters listed in the filter will be included in the output font.

The custom filter file should have one hexadecimal character encoding per line. An example is shown here:

0x3456   // you can put comments 
0x3467   // or other notes after the character encoding 
0x3786   // as shown here

This file format was chosen because it works perfectly with the encoding tables provided with the Unicode Standard version 2.0. The Unicode standard accepts that many character encoding "standards" are in existence and provides table to map the alternate character encodings to the Unicode encoding. These table can be directly supplied to FontCapture as filter files, allowing you to generate Unicode encoded fonts containing only those characters defined by a previous standard.

Font Capture

Font Range Configuration

Defining Unicode Strings