On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>wrote: > > This is a similar problem to font/glyph issues outlined earlier by Andrew >> Cunningham with various African and Eastern languages. >> >> I've tried several different fonts, and they all render the glyphs >> differently, despite canonical equivalence. >> > > This is somewhat tangential to the real issue, but FWIW.... I suspect that > in most (or perhaps all) cases, what's really happening is that the font > you're using does not support the characters U+3008 and U+3009, and your > software is performing a font fallback and rendering these from its default > CJK font instead. So it's not that font developers are providing different > glyphs for canonically-equivalent characters, but rather, they are not > necessarily supporting the equivalent characters at all. > > JK > > That is possible; I went into "[Character Map]" (A program on Ubuntu which lists *all* the characters, whether they exist or not), and in every font, except for a few, the characters varied only slightly, if at all, between fonts. FreeSans and FreeMono show a difference in all the characters in the three strings(between the two fonts, and between the two characters). The difference is less noticable in FreeSans, but there is a difference. Andrew Cunningham wrote: >One of the reasons its better to use appropriate fonts for the language and contents of a document. > >The shape of each glyph is a design consideration by the font developer base don the context of its usage. > Most of the fonts I checked in my first reply were either Serif, Sans-serif, or some other non-monospace fonts. Most wouldn't appear to be intended to be used in something which would require different glyphs to be rendered differently and handled as such (coding, for example).
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