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SIL ViewGlyph is a font viewing program for Windows which allows you to see a font's contents through the eyes of a different application or operating system. If you want to see what the font looks like when it is used by a Unicode application, or moved to a Macintosh, or want to know what the font looks like when viewed through a particular codepage, ViewGlyph will allow you to see this. ViewGlyph can show you the raw glyph palette, which is useful if you are writing smart-font code (i.e. OpenType, Graphite, or AAT tables) for your font. You can view certain TrueType font tables (name and cmap) and see various font metrics. Finally, ViewGlyph is useful for investigating how Windows maps 8-bit characters into Unicode through various codepages.
