RE: [OT] What is DEL for?

[Marco Cimarosti]

Mike Ayers wrote:
> > This also casts some light on the fact that some fonts
> > (notably JIS fonts)
> > have a big black box glyphs at position 0x7F: [...]
> 
>       Probably not.  A big black box (big hollow boxes are 
> also used for
> this) is a polite way to represent a character which has no glyph.

I don't think this is the case -- at least not for MS Mincho, the only
Japanese font that I have at hand -- because the glyph for all other missing
characters is a small circle; only DEL is a black square.

_ Marco