On 18 March 2013 10:25, Shailen Tuli <[email protected]> wrote:

> Lex, thanks for the feedback.
>
> On Sunday, March 17, 2013 3:46:36 PM UTC-7, Lex Trotman wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 18 March 2013 09:35, Shailen Tuli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having trouble in displaying an extended Unicode character in the
>>> html version of my asciidoc document.
>>>
>>> The symbol is the treble clef    , '\u1F3BC' . It displays fine on
>>> Github:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/dart-lang/**c**ookbook/blob/strings/book.**asci**
>>> idoc#solution-7<https://github.com/dart-lang/cookbook/blob/strings/book.asciidoc#solution-7>
>>>
>>> But on the html file that asciidoc generates for me, I get an empty box.
>>>  Other Unicode characters show up fine.  Is this a missing font issue or an
>>> sciidoc issue?
>>>
>>
>> You can have a look at the html asciidoc generates to see what character
>> is generated, but I think its almost certainly a font "problem".  Your clef
>> in the email above displays as a square box for me. And if I show the
>> github page as source the symbol shows as a square box.
>>
>> For an example in a book like this, you probably should stick to common
>> characters so your users are likely to have them, even if not as exciting
>> as music notation :)
>>
>
> Alas, the whole point of the section where I use the clef is to show how
> to deal with exotic UTF-16 characters that don't fit into 16 bits. I could
> of course hunt for  another one that is more widely supported. FWIW, every
> one of the first 65,536 Unicode characters that I've used in my text shows
> up nicely. Its the really exotic ones that don't.
>

Yeah, the 16 bit Unicodes have been around for longer and so are more
widely supported.  I guess you could look at what font github is using.

Cheers
Lex



>
> Take care,
>
> Shailen
>
>
>> Cheers
>> Lex
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - Shailen Tuli
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