From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 20:38:43 EST
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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