Are you CONFUSED about WHAT CHARACTER(S) you type?!?!

[Michael McGlothlin]

Similar but with a couple differences. Most important would be getting vendors to actually use the font. Also it should be appropriate to actually display the characters rather than being debugging information.

Does this last resort font represent every character in some meaningful way? e.g. I've tried to use somewhat rare characters like runes before and it was a pretty big pain to find fonts that were free to distribute, weren't buggy, and displayed the correct symbol for that character. And some applications wouldn't display them correctly even after installing a font. (Visual Studio let me use runes as variable names and compiled fine but wouldn't actually display the rune symbols.)


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> On Mar 25, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just like Unicode Last Resort Font[1]?
> 
>  [1]: http://www.unicode.org/policies/lastresortfont_eula.html
> 
> ↪ Shervin
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Michael McGlothlin <mike.mcglothlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to see a free/open "default" font that has a correct, simple styled, symbol for every Unicode character. Vendors should be pressured to use this font when other options aren't available. I get tired of seeing default symbols, incorrect symbols, and mystery white spaces that aren't really white space. It's pretty silly to have a code point without a default symbol I think.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael McGlothlin
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Mar 25, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Robert Wheelock <rwhlk142 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> When you’re typing, do you find yourself winding up being CONFUSED over what you type?!?!  It’s a crucially SERIOUS matter—especially when typing on a computer!
>>> 
>>> For instance:  When you type in a HOLLOW HEART SUIT (U+02661), it may show up as an IDENTICAL TO SIGN (U+02261) or a GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI (U+0039E)... it all DEPENDS on whatever FONT you’re using to type with!
>>> 
>>> The default Microsoft Sans Serif font (within Microsoft Windows) has this ABOMINABLE habit of substituting this IDENTICAL TO SIGN (which should be at U+02261)—because Microsoft (regrettably) placed this math symbol where the HOLLOW HEART SUIT should be (at U+02661)!  ¡AGONISTES!
>>> 
>>> What Microsoft SHOULD DO is THIS:  Please move the IDENTICAL TO SIGN from (U+02661—the location where the HOLLOW HEART SUIT goes) to its PROPER LOCATION at (U+02261)!!  THAT would be MUCH better!!
>>> 
>>> What other CHARACTER CALAMITIES have you come across?!?!
>>> 
>>> Thank You!
>> 
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