På 2001-11-10 18:57 skrev Jarkko Hietaniemi: > > Hardly anyone needs full Unicode. If all you are interested in are > > European scripts and symbols for instance, then the 3 kilocharacters of > > the Unicode subset MES-3 are more than good enough for your needs, and > > the XFree86 standard xterm fonts 6x13, 8x13, 9x15, 9x18, 10x20 have > > covered MES-3 for over a year now and are widely used. > > > > People who can read CJK glyphs have used larger font sizes so far and > > will continue to do so in the future. > > I forget exactly which program it was I saw recently but it had a nice > variation for showing the Unicode fonts it didn't know much about: > instead of showing the customary empty/black boxes or upside-down > exclamation marks, it did have some knowledge of the *script ranges* > it didn't know more about, so it showed little generic icons: > a katakana symbol (again, I have no idea what it was :-), but I > recognized it to be kata) where there were katakana, a devanagari > symbol where there was Indic, an Arabic gyph where there were Arabic > letters, and so on. So even if the font didn't have all the glyphs > available, you could still see a general idea of what you had.
I’m not sure this would be a good idea. When I see lots of ॐs or something I will think it’s part of the real text, and would surely lead to confusion. I would prefer to have the characters replaced by that box so I know my font is incomplete. Wrong information is worse than none at all. Regards, Øyvind +================== http://www.sunbase.org/sunny ===================+ | OpenPGP: 0xAD19826C 2000-01-24 Øyvind A. Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Fingerprint: EAE5 DCA0 0626 5DAA 72F8 0435 2E2B E476 AD19 826C | +=========== 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. ============+ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
