On Monday 16 July 2018 14:01:54 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett > >> <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > > wrote: > >> > On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee <jle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> >> >> No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in > >> >> >> 2018 can stick their head in the sand and take seriously the > >> >> >> position that Latin-1 (let alone ASCII) is enough for text > >> >> >> strings. > >> >> > > >> >> > Easy - for many people, 90% of the Python code they write is > >> >> > not intended for world-wide distribution, let alone use. > >> >> > > >> >> > The smart thing would be for a language to have a switch of > >> >> > some sort to turn on/off all I18N features. > >> >> > >> >> Earlier I cited an example of round-tripping from human to human > >> >> via various web protocols. Here's an actual example of a Twitch > >> >> stream title: > >> >> > >> >> π±γ Stardew Valley Fanart γπ±*:ο½₯οΎβ§γ 800 Subpoints = NEW EMOTE > >> >> γ#devicat #anime #stardewvalley #fantasy > >> > > >> > Ok, I'll bite. What font would be used to properly display the > >> > above? > >> > >> Not sure, but the default fonts in my web browser, text editor, and > >> terminal all have no problems with it. I'm on Debian Linux running > >> Xfce, fwiw. Haven't had any issues anywhere. > >> > >> ChrisA > > > > Whereas I am on wheezy, 32 bit pae, using TDE as a desktop, with > > kmail-1.9-10-enterprise, using a 14 point unifont for the message > > body display. > > > > Its a nice clear, very readable font for these elderly eyes. I just > > tried several of the more std fonts w/o affecting the display of the > > rectangles you see above. Hence the question and thread noise. > > Apparently, and despite being set for utf-8, I don't have a font > > capable of displaying this string in its entirety as I've just tried > > a couple dozen more. > > > > Thanks ChrisA. > > Oh! I just remembered. Try installing (through apt-get or equivalent) > the "unifont" package. It'll drag in a few fonts designed to provide > good coverage of all of Unicode, making them available as fallback > fonts. That way, when you use a font that doesn't have all the > characters, it'll use that for the bulk of the text, but instead of > the rectangles that you're seeing, you'll get the correct glyphs. > > ChrisA
Checking now ChrisA, and I already have installed: unifont unifont.bin xfonts-unifont ttf-unifont all version 1:5.1.200809-14-1.3 Is there another package to make it complete? I did select and install a couple that might have some connection. But I am still seeing the same rectangles. Obviously my guesses weren't SWAG's. Thanks ChrisA -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list