Quick question? unicode help

[tamaranth]

My google-fu is failing me on this, but AKICOLJ ...

The problem:
- I am checking pages which include non-standard characters (e.g. quotations in Greek, names in Turkish, mathematical functions, astronomical symbols etc.)
- These characters are coded as Unicode Hexadecimal NCRs, e.g. Tòν is coded as Tòν
- All Unicode characters must be supported in Verdana

My current modus operandi:
- for each character, do a copy-paste-find on this page of supported characters
- or for slightly longer texts, get the NCRs converted via this copy-paste conversion utility, and look at included/excluded ranges on the page of supported characters

What I really really want:
- a website (nothing downloadable) where I can:
--- copy the non-standard text (or, failing that, the HTML code with the NCRs)
--- paste it into a text box
--- specify 'show me this in Verdana'
--- be alerted to (or at least be able to see) which characters are supported and which are not.

Alternatively
- point out the bleedin' obvious solution which I am missing!

Comments

[feorag.livejournal.com]

Does Typetester (http://www.typetester.org/) fit the bill?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

An interesting page - but it's doing glyph substitution for me, using Opera under Windows and giving it a chunk of Arabic.

(Either that, or Comic Sans includes Arabic, which the Character Set accessory denies.)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

sadly, something is substituting ...
... but you have helped me to the Bleedin' Obvious solution which involves Notepad!

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Does that actually work?

(My copy of Notepad also did substitution with Arabic.)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

seems to (though I suspect there is some system-level setting that controls when, and under what circumstances, font/glyph substitution takes place: that or there are specific fonts which may or may not be installed).

Example:
text "εοσεβής"
Unicode εοσεβής

In Notepad, with font set to Verdana, the penultimate character displays as a square (not supported): the rest is fine.
That penultimate character is x1F75: Supported Unicode characters for Verdana (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/verdana/grid.htm) sez: "U+1F00 to U+1FFF no support " but all the 03B-C range are okay.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

gah, fontfail! how the heck do I embed NCRs in a comment? no RTF option ...

Unicode εοσεβής

[(Anonymous)]

GAH:
εοσεβής

[(Anonymous)]

oh for heaven's sake ...
ε
ο
σ
ε
β
ή
ς

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Aha, my setup seems to be different, and that's probably because I always install full foreign language support. I don't see any squares, just an eta with an accent over it.

(There are times where a lower spec setup is useful.)