Re: Last resort font

From: Crwth (crythau@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2008 - 09:38:01 CDT

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    I've found a bunch of problems with this font; the code that generates them
    seems to make a mess of certain groups. cf. U+0735 SYRIAC ZQAPHA DOTTED has
    an example of the overlaying seen elsewhere, as well as incorrect boundaries
    in the rendering.

    It's a useful fallback, though, if the rendering bug is found. 

    --
  Wayne
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Ed Trager <ed.trager@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Everyone,
>
> This might be a good time to note that SIL provides a Unicode
> "fallback" font under the Open Font License which displays the Unicode
> value in hexadecimal:
>
>       http://scripts.sil.org/UnicodeBMPFallbackFont
>
> The SIL fallback font can be quite useful for debugging purposes.
>
> - Ed Trager
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Don Osborn <dzo@bisharat.net> wrote:
> > This is interesting, but at first I thought "last resort" meant that this
> was a font that covered a selection of characters that are under-represented
> among the most widely available and commonly used fonts (however that would
> be determined!).
> >
> > If I understand correctly, what it actually seems to be is a way of
> having something more informative than an empty box or question mark when a
> character in a text is not included on any font installed on the user's
> computer. It somehow determines the appropriate character block in which the
> missing character is encoded and returns the symbol for that block.
> >
> > If that is correct, it might help to introduce the concept at the top in
> this way. It also means that the first advantage - "Operating systems are
> freed from the overhead of providing a full Unicode font" - is not entirely
> accurate. You would still need to find and load an appropriate font for the
> missing characters (for the script[s] involved or even a full Unicode font
> if it comes to that), but the LRF lets you know what character block(s)
> needs to be covered.
> >
> > Don Osborn
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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