- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:46:28 -0700
- To: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- Cc: rfink@readableweb.com, www-font@w3.org
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us> wrote: > On an aside: It would be nice if there were some font with glyphs for every > character of which chunks could be downloaded by the browser as needed. That > would ensure that all characters could at least be displayed (if not > optimally) as long as the user were online. I suspect that such an endeavor > would significantly increase use of characters that are avoided for fear of > a missing glyph. To do literally what you desire is no longer possible, as there are almost 100K characters defined in Unicode, and a font conforming to any of the common standards (e.g. OpenType) can hold no more than 64K glyphs to represent those characters. I expect the particular font you were seeing as fallback might be the Last Resort font, developed by Apple but made available to others: http://unicode.org/policies/lastresortfont_eula.html It can at least give an indicator of what codepoint range a missing character is from.... Regards, T -- "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Sir Winston Churchill
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