Makes sense. That's what my TV screen looked like every time a low
flying plane flew overhead, before we had cable.

So it represents one more definition:

1) character not encoded,
2) glyph not found
3) lost signal

tex

Tom Gewecke wrote:
> 
> >Apple's LastResort font uses a rounded box for all of its glyphs,
> >with letters and other things inside them. The Last Resort .notdef
> >glyph has a number of backslash diagonals filling the interior of the
> >rounded box. Quite effective.
> 
> If anyone would like to see exactly what this looks like, check
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/aplntdf.jpg
> 
> This much enlarged.  At size 12 of course much of the detail is lost.

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