Erik> I can see their point. If you use 0xFFFD for DEFAULT_CHAR, then you
Erik> can't tell whether that glyph is being displayed because *you*
Erik> didn't have a *glyph* or because *Unicode* didn't have a *character*
Erik> for whatever the user is trying to display. 0x0000 seems more like a
Erik> valid control char to me. How about using 0xFFFF ("guaranteed not to
Erik> be a Unicode character at all") for X11's DEFAULT_CHAR?
The black square representing 0xFFFE and 0xFFFF in the Unicode book might be
mistaken for one of the characters from the BLOCK ELEMENTS section of Unicode.
How about a black square with a white "FFFF" in the middle? Maybe someone
can come up with something more clever.
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Computing Research Lab Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
New Mexico State University -- Lou Reed
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