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GUI: How can I find out if certain Unicode characters are supported?

I noticed that Metal L&F doesn't support certain arrow characters from Unicode, while Nimbus and GTK L&Fs do support them.

Unsupported characters are just displayed as: ...

Can I

  1. either look up (manually), which L&F supports which Unicode chars,
  2. or find it out at runtime?

EDIT: Or, should it only depend on the L&F's default font, my question perhaps should be:
"how do I find out, which Java font supports which Unicode characters?"

Solution

  • You can use the canDisplay method to test if a java.awt.Font object can display a given character. You can typically get the font from GUI components using the getFont() method.