Le jeudi 12 janvier 2006 à 12:58 -0500, Matthias Clasen a écrit : > Hey, I have a question about > > U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER > > (The question came up in > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326747 > if you are interested in context) > > I wonder why some fonts have the glyph I would expect there, a question > mark on some dark background (Fixed), or just a black square (Console), > but most of the text fonts, in particular Bitstream Vera, have something > that looks similar to a cedilla or comma. Is that a traditional symbol > used to indicate unknown characters ? I would be much happier to have a > more questionmarkesque glyph in all fonts... Just replace vera by dejavu in core (or install dejavu from extras) Someone complained he had no U+FFFD on its Fedora system last year. As far as I know the only group to react was dejavu - they added it to their vera fork in less than a month. The alternative would have been to package yet another free font just to add this character, and rely on fontconfig to transparently complete partial fonts. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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