From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2008 - 01:42:26 CDT
Simon Montagu wrote:
> This also might be a good time to note that the next version of
> Firefox,
> due to be released some time this month, falls back to displaying the
> Unicode value in hexadecimal for codepoints not covered by any
> available font.
This presumably implies that if the Last Resort (or LastResort?) font
has been installed, a glyph from it is displayed instead. And this is
better for people with no idea of Unicode, as well as to some who have
some idea. It might be worse for people who know Unicode: they will see
just the generic glyph (which they might or might not recognize in its
intended meaning, by intuition or by having learned it), not information
about the specific code point.
To get the best of both worlds, the user should actually see the generic
glyph with the code number embedded into it (or available on mouseover,
but that goes beyond font issues). There's actually "fine print" in the
glyphs, and I expected it to contain such information, and I was
disappointed at seeing that it, too, is just generic. But of course the
font would become much bigger if it had a different glyph for every code
position.
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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