Take the 2-minute tour ×  After reading an article about fonts,
i tried the code and i am getting same results as show in the
article but i can't figure out what those numbers XXX:XXX
represent. Are they ascii values or what? What link should i
read to understand about Typeface, GlyphTypeface mentioned in
the answer?  share|improve this question You quote an article
and dont bother reading it and looking it up in the
documentation regarding the code sample? Must be a new
professional attitude. –  TomTom Mar 22 '12 at 6:05 I read it
that why tried running its code but couldn't understand its
outcome. as simple as that. looks like not reading people
question carefully is the new professional attitude.. –  Nikhil
Agrawal Mar 22 '12 at 6:08 add comment  1 Answer  up vote 3 down
vote accepted  Well - those numbers xxx:xxx is actual a pair -
left number indicates unicode code point (i.e. unicode character
code) and right side indicates the index to the glyph in the
font file.  AFAIK, in very simple terms, glyph is