On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:42 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le jeudi 12 janvier 2006 à 14:06 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:26 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:58 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > > I wonder why some fonts have the glyph I would expect there, a question > > > > mark on some dark background (Fixed), or just a black square (Console), > > > > > > Those are fine. > > > > > > > but most of the text fonts, in particular Bitstream Vera, have something > > > > that looks similar to a cedilla or comma. Is that a traditional symbol > > > > used to indicate unknown characters ? I would be much happier to have a > > > > more questionmarkesque glyph in all fonts... > > > > > > That's weird and very probably a bug or something in Bitstream Vera. > > > (There is a small chance it's a workaround for some bug somewhere, but > > > it's clearly not a traditional symbold for unknown characters.) > > > > > > roozbeh > > > > > > > Hmm, but the same glyph appears in the Unicode tables... > > That's not weird at all. > It told you Fedora does not have any variable font providing a clean > unknown character (most certainly Vera since dejavu had to create the > glyph, probably all others else there would have been a problem report > last year) > > What it got is one font lying about this glyph (probably because its > designer considered no one would ever use it, and put a random squiggle > in its place). > > For every font you try fontconfig fallbacks till it finds a font file > that claims to provide the glyph -> every font which is missing this > glyph (almost all) is fallbacking on the same problem font. > > Install any font which provides the right glyph, putting it on higher > prio than the b0rked font, and everything will be fine. Including in the > unicode table applet.
Ah, you are probably right. I somehow thought I had seen it in a gif in the brower, but it was probably just Vera again ... Matthias _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
