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Re: Font evolution

From "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Font evolution
Date 2013-03-03 04:57 -0500
Organization The Wasteland
Message-ID <nospam-0ABCE6.04570303032013@news.aioe.org> (permalink)
References <d9r3j8lmi694s3j5qhma66q1dq58oh2mrd@4ax.com>

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In article <d9r3j8lmi694s3j5qhma66q1dq58oh2mrd@4ax.com>,
 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

> What happens in Java apps when a glyph is missing from the
> specified font?

I think you're supposed [1] to see a WHITE SQUARE [2], which "may be 
used to represent a missing ideograph." See also BALLOT BOX [3].

[1] <http://www.unicode.org/faq/unsup_char.html>
[2] <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25a1/index.htm>
[3] <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2610/index.htm>

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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Font evolution Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-02 04:17 -0800
  Re: Font evolution Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-03-02 14:32 +0100
  Re: Font evolution "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-03-03 04:57 -0500
    Re: Font evolution Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2013-03-03 18:48 +0000
      Re: Font evolution "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-03-03 20:46 -0500
        Re: Font evolution Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2013-03-04 06:59 +0000

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