How to find undefined font characters in text

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Alan
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How to find undefined font characters in text

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When I moved from the Tahoma font to Google's Noto Sans and from Noto Sans to Noto Serif by changing the Normal paragraph style or a top level paragraph style I ended up with undefined characters in the resulting text, shown by Noto fonts as a vertical empty rectangle. Is there a way to search for these characters?

An example is where I changed a paragraph style from italic to serif and Noto Sans has Prime and Reversed Prime characters where Noto Serif only has Prime characters, no Reversed Prime. I did this editing paragraph styles and never looked at the text afterwards.

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Re: How to find undefined font characters in text

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Atlantis does not have a tool to report characters formatted with a font that does not have corresponding glyphs. Having such tool would be useful in some cases, I think.
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Re: How to find undefined font characters in text

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On a related subject ... I recommend the free utility BabelMap to help you see whether certain glyphs are available in a font that you want to use:

https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html

Also, I have found that you can usually depend on the free font DejaVu Sans to have special glyphs that are missing in other fonts. Download from here:

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/dejavu-sans
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Re: How to find undefined font characters in text

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Thanks rstroud,
Good suggestions. I have DejaVu and have used the male and female symbols as they look like expected; Noto fails on these with tiny versions.

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