Re: Last Resort Font

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 17:05:20 EDT

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At 16:51 -0400 2003-08-19, Jim Allan wrote:
>
>>The Last Resort Font has glyphs for all the characters, so it's the last one
>>looked at.
>
>I hope that it is not just for that reason that it is the last one looked at.

Eh? The system looks for Unicode glyphs in all the other fonts and if
there's no available glyph the the LRF is displayed. It's the "last
resort".

There are, of course, some lovely easter-eggs in the font....

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