On 07/30/2002 12:27:14 PM Martin Kochanski wrote:
>In writing a manual, I want to show examples of what a display looks like
when
>a font doesn't have a particular character.
>
>What Unicode character would best represent the "missing character"
symbol?
>
>I have looked through the Unicode Standard but not found anything that
>immediately springs to mind. Since missing characters are represented by
hollow
>squares in Arial Unicode MS, I could arbitrarily pick something like
U+25A1 --
>but that might not look the same (in some fonts) as the "missing
character"
>hollow square.
You've answered your own question: you want a character that provides a
specific glyph shape, but then you observe that different fonts have
different shapes from one another wrt a given glyph. Note that the "missing
character" glyph varies from font to font. In fact, it's not always a
hollow square!
Just use U+25A1 and call it a day.
- Peter
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Peter Constable
Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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