>From the "oops" file... A few days ago I replied to William Overington:
>> I have also analysed the other black rectangle which appears in your >> posting by the same process. It comes out as decimal 9785 which >> converts to hexadecimal 2639 which, upon looking in the code charts, >> gives a variation on a smiley, namely a frowning face. > > Now that glyph *is* in quite a few existing fonts. If you are using > Windows 2000 or XP and a fairly common Microsoft-provided font, you > should have seen it. I mistakenly assumed U+2639 was in Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4). It isn't, so unless you are using one of the large pan-Unicode fonts such as Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, Code2000, etc., you might not have see the frowning face. I didn't see it myself in John Jenkins' message until I copied and pasted it into UniPad. And twelve hours ago I wrote: > Indeed, that's just what I might expect suffficiently advanced > Unicode-based software to do misspelling "sufficiently" with three f's instead of two. I wonder if this documented (and archived!) instance of the sequence "fffi" might cause William to allocate a PUA code point for an "fffi" ligature. I'd better not give anyone any ideas. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
