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Re: 9 displays as - in every browser

From Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject Re: 9 displays as - in every browser
Date 2021-04-03 05:26 +0000
Organization Some absurd concept
Message-ID <eli$2104030114@qaz.wtf> (permalink)
References <s473im$v4e$1@dont-email.me> <eli$2104021930@qaz.wtf> <s48f7m$co8$1@dont-email.me> <s48hbh$qlm$1@dont-email.me>

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In comp.os.linux.development.apps, Bob Tennent  <rdtennent@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Seems to be one of "Lucida Grande","Trebuchet
>> MS","Verdana","Helvetica","Arial",sans-serif;

Firefox inspector (which is the only one I've used recently, and not
much) underlines the font being used.

>> fontforge and 9 is 9.  Same with all the others.

Fontforge must be using the font files differently, but I can't say how.
Fonts are complicated.[*]

> Using the following test file:
...
> <style type="text/css">
> body { font-family:  "Lucida Grande";}
>  </style>
> </head>
> 999
...
> 
> I've determined that my Lucida_Grande.ttf is the problem

That's good. Corrupt fonts are not common, or at least not commonly
noticed. If ¥ prints as ₩ but you never buy anything in Yen or Won, you
might not realize the problem.

Elijah
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[*] https://hackaday.com/2021/03/22/an-entire-game-inside-of-a-font/

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9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-02 12:44 +0000
  Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-02 17:53 +0000
    Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-02 18:39 +0000
      Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-02 18:50 +0000
        Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-02 23:16 +0000
          Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-02 23:30 +0000
            Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-03 01:09 +0000
              Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2021-04-03 01:45 +0000
                Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-04-03 05:26 +0000
  Re: 9 displays as - in every browser Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> - 2021-04-03 03:35 +0000

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