It only provides a "stand-in" glyph if you don't otherwise have a font for that character on your system. That "stand-in" just indicates the type of character (eg script).
No single font with current technology can handle all of Unicode. The most complete open font set I know of is the Noto family: https://www.google.com/get/noto/. I don't think it has a full set of symbols (others: correct me if I'm wrong.) Symbola is pretty good for arbitrary symbols. There are many other resources on http://unicode.org/resources/fonts.html. Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Michael McGlothlin < [email protected]> wrote: > Similar but with a couple differences. Most important would be getting > vendors to actually use the font. Also it should be appropriate to actually > display the characters rather than being debugging information. > > Does this last resort font represent every character in some meaningful > way? e.g. I've tried to use somewhat rare characters like runes before and > it was a pretty big pain to find fonts that were free to distribute, > weren't buggy, and displayed the correct symbol for that character. And > some applications wouldn't display them correctly even after installing a > font. (Visual Studio let me use runes as variable names and compiled fine > but wouldn't actually display the rune symbols.) > > > Sent from my iPad > > On Mar 25, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Shervin Afshar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just like Unicode Last Resort Font[1]? > > [1]: http://www.unicode.org/policies/lastresortfont_eula.html > > ↪ Shervin > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Michael McGlothlin < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd like to see a free/open "default" font that has a correct, simple >> styled, symbol for every Unicode character. Vendors should be pressured to >> use this font when other options aren't available. I get tired of seeing >> default symbols, incorrect symbols, and mystery white spaces that aren't >> really white space. It's pretty silly to have a code point without a >> default symbol I think. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Michael McGlothlin >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Mar 25, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Robert Wheelock <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello! >> >> When you’re typing, do you find yourself winding up being CONFUSED over >> what you type?!?! It’s a crucially SERIOUS matter—especially when typing >> on a computer! >> >> For instance: When you type in a HOLLOW HEART SUIT (U+02661), it may >> show up as an IDENTICAL TO SIGN (U+02261) or a GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI >> (U+0039E)... it all DEPENDS on whatever FONT you’re using to type with! >> >> The default Microsoft Sans Serif font (within Microsoft Windows) has this >> ABOMINABLE habit of substituting this IDENTICAL TO SIGN (which should be at >> U+02261)—because Microsoft (regrettably) placed this math symbol where the >> HOLLOW HEART SUIT should be (at U+02661)! * ¡AGONISTES!* >> >> What Microsoft SHOULD DO *is* *THIS*: Please move the IDENTICAL TO SIGN >> from (U+02661—the location where the HOLLOW HEART SUIT goes) to its PROPER >> LOCATION at (U+02261)!! THAT would be MUCH better!! >> >> What other CHARACTER CALAMITIES have you come across?!?! >> >> Thank You! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Unicode mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > >
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