Re: replacement character

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:26 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:58 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > 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),
> 
> Those are fine.
> 
> > 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...
> 
> That's weird and very probably a bug or something in Bitstream Vera.
> (There is a small chance it's a workaround for some bug somewhere, but
> it's clearly not a traditional symbold for unknown characters.)
> 
> roozbeh
> 

Hmm, but the same glyph appears in the Unicode tables...