On 07/30/2002 12:27:14 PM Martin Kochanski wrote:
>In writing a manual, I want to show examples of what a display looks like when >a font doesn't have a particular character. > >What Unicode character would best represent the "missing character" symbol? > >I have looked through the Unicode Standard but not found anything that >immediately springs to mind. Since missing characters are represented by hollow >squares in Arial Unicode MS, I could arbitrarily pick something like U+25A1 -- >but that might not look the same (in some fonts) as the "missing character" >hollow square. You've answered your own question: you want a character that provides a specific glyph shape, but then you observe that different fonts have different shapes from one another wrt a given glyph. Note that the "missing character" glyph varies from font to font. In fact, it's not always a hollow square! Just use U+25A1 and call it a day. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>