I appreciate the suggestion and hadn't tried that.
That does let me at least view fonts quickly.
However, I don't see the ascii name of the font, it shows me, e.g., メイリオ not Meiryo (which ascii font name I happen to recall because it's both common and unintuitive that they'd (mis)spell it that way.)
Also the unicode thing, that just shows me the characters that are also in unicode, it doesn't tell me if the font is stored in natural unicode order. I think if I memorized the location (e.g. so many lines down ぁあ should be the 4th and 5th column) I could identify the fonts I'm looking for. Actually I think I'd also need to identify a kanji location because some fonts put kana in the right place and kanji somewhere else.
(Maybe it'd be easier to go contribute to VLC and fix their japanese support since nobody else seems to have this problem of needing the internal order to line up. Been a long time since I wrote code though, and never for font rendering. Yeah, probably not going to happen.)
That does let me at least view fonts quickly.
However, I don't see the ascii name of the font, it shows me, e.g., メイリオ not Meiryo (which ascii font name I happen to recall because it's both common and unintuitive that they'd (mis)spell it that way.)
Also the unicode thing, that just shows me the characters that are also in unicode, it doesn't tell me if the font is stored in natural unicode order. I think if I memorized the location (e.g. so many lines down ぁあ should be the 4th and 5th column) I could identify the fonts I'm looking for. Actually I think I'd also need to identify a kanji location because some fonts put kana in the right place and kanji somewhere else.
(Maybe it'd be easier to go contribute to VLC and fix their japanese support since nobody else seems to have this problem of needing the internal order to line up. Been a long time since I wrote code though, and never for font rendering. Yeah, probably not going to happen.)