John> On the other hand, a 10646 font may lack a specific character or two
John> that are available in some other font, and the user would be better
John> off seeing something other than the empty box.
John> On the gripping hand ...?
... one could use special glyphs for unknown characters in certain blocks,
such as the "Last Resort" glyphs (including the "hidden glyphs") available in
two forms (below). The trick then is to set this font as a fallback and
select the appropriate glyph.
BDF font:
ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/unicode/fonts/lr24.bdf.gz
GIFs:
ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/unicode/fonts/hid24gif.tar.gz
ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/unicode/fonts/lr24gif.tar.gz
Perhaps Mark Davis could provide an update on the location that was formerly
known as:
http://people.taligent.com/~davis/LastResortFont/
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