Στις 27/Ιούν/2005, ημέρα Δευτέρα και ώρα 14:33, ο/η [EMAIL PROTECTED]
έγραψε:
> On my fedora core 3 gnome desktop,
> I get a weird representation for U+FFFD.
> Here's what it looks like for you [�].
> 
> It's the "REPLACEMENT CHARACTER", and according
> to the following should be question mark enclosed
> in a solid diamond: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFFF0.pdf
> I've been told that this is also the representation
> on windows and OSX.
> 
> However I'm getting a weird comma like thing, which
> Markus Kuhn _has_ made reference to here I think:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-wrong/UTF-8-test.html
> In the gnome charmap applet it seems to be the nimbus
> and schoolbook (sans and serif) fallback fonts that have
> this weird representation. The (Misc) Fixed fonts
> do have the question mark as expected.
> 
> So why this weird representation?
> I'm writing an app where I would like to display
> characters that are invalid in the current encoding,
> and the comma like thing it totally confusing for users.

Hi,
On my system (FC2), gucharmap says it's FreeSans.
Doesn't FC3 have FreeSans/FreeSerif/FreeMono?
Ubuntu and other distributions come with "freefont" by default, covering
a good range of the Unicode space.
If FC4 does not install by default freefont, you should file a bug
report.

Simos



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