On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Well, actually I was just using that character as a (fairly unimportant) example.
That's why I said "and related cases where isolated characters don't display properly".
Anyway, is there really no general solution to me coming across various articles with characters that render as boxes? You seem to be saying ("there's no font out there that really supports *all* of Unicode") that the only solution is to download and install the particular font that has the glyphs used by one particular article...but that will then leave other articles uncovered.
The solution is to not use poorly-supported Unicode characters in articles. No, there's no better solution. It's just the same as using fancy new HTML5 features that aren't widely supported, or whatever. That's the price of using evolving standards with multiple implementations instead of a homogeneous one-vendor system.
I'm amazed there isn't even a reference unicode font that has all the glyphs?
There's not any that I know of. Go figure out how to propose the idea to the Unicode Consortium if you like.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
I have been told off list that Windows-7 supports this character by default. This is one valid reason to choose Windows-7 for your operating system. It is also a challenge to other operating systems to be as good.
The relative merits of operating systems are not relevant to either this topic or this list.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Tei oscar.vives@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe Wikipedia can do
- {
font-family: "name of font that wikipedia recomend","Arial Unicode", Helvetica, sans; }
Wikipedia will not set a default font for Latin-based scripts at any time in the foreseeable future. We need to respect users' choice of default font wherever possible. (For some languages' scripts this may not be practical, but that's a separate issue.) As far as I know, most browsers these days will try to use any available font that has the character in question if the specified font doesn't have it. I'm not totally sure about that, though.
It still doesn't solve the problem that some characters aren't supported in almost any commonly-available font.