From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How Firefox shows characters missing in font
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:04:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50907041004q79776d52yfec06a7dbb023387@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A4F8980.4090706@gnu.org>
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Jason Rumney<jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>> We discussed how to show characters missing in a font a while ago.
>> Here is an example of how Firefox handles it. It shows four hex digits
>> in a square.
>>
>
> What does it do when it needs six hex digits? It doesn't look like there is
> room for any more in there.
It doesn't do anything. I includes only BMP (with private area) which
if I understand it correctly only is 0000 - ffff.
But I know nothing about this. Which other pars are most important? On
wikipedia I see they divide it in 8 ranges (with one big unassigned
range). It looks like this could perhaps be handled in some way by for
example colors.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-04 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-04 12:42 How Firefox shows characters missing in font Lennart Borgman
2009-07-04 14:21 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-04 16:55 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-04 17:04 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-07-04 19:30 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-04 19:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-04 19:52 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-04 21:37 ` James Cloos
2009-07-05 10:18 ` Richard Stallman
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