John Brown <johnbrown_...@yahoo.com> writes: > Jason Rumney wrote: > >> >> >> Things can go wrong at steps 2 and 3, either because of deficiencies in >> the fonts themselves, or in Windows reporting of scripts covered by the >> font. >> > > Perhaps, but if there are such problems, Firefox is not affected. > Neither is Internet Explorer. I am unable to spot any unrecognised > characters when either browser displays > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt.
I think browsers on Windows tend to have a hardcoded fallback to "Arial Unicode MS" if all else fails. This font is commonly installed on Windows, and covers all the Basic Multilingual Plane. But it is a variable width font, so Emacs does not consider it a candidate when looking for monospaced fonts.
