Previewing unicode fonts on Linux

Question

Is there a tool on Linux that would allow me to preview Unicode fonts. Fontforge allows me to see the available glyphs and Unicode ranges, but the display is very crude. Gnome font viewer shows only the Latin range.

Ideally the tool would accept a string in a given encoding and then show the preview for the string.

Regards.

Answer 1

GNOME Character Map (installed on most gnome-friendly systems, try charmap) can give you what you need.

Answer 2

I'd recommend to use FontMatrix. It's playground feature may suite your needs: area, where you can place text in any font/style and compare them.

site seems to be broken, but you can install it from your repository.