On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> Has anyone an idea, why xterm in XFree86 4.0.2 fails to display the
> default character (dashed box, present at 0x00 in all *ISO10646-1 BDF
> fonts) for some fonts when it encounters a Unicode character not present
> in the font? It shows a blank space instead. I haven't found this
> problem with other applications (e.g., xfd), so I suspect it might be an
> xterm specific problem.

perhaps a mismatch between the font metrics and xterm's clipping of
out-of-bounds glyphs (I'd have to check to see which was wrong - I
have found that the font server occasionally gives incorrect results).

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