From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Mon Dec 08 2008 - 06:58:43 CST
Quoting "Julian Bradfield" <jcb+unicode@inf.ed.ac.uk>:
> On 2008-12-08, Christopher Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Was it the Unicode list software, my mail client (Thuderbird), or some
>> other process which converted Andrew's non-BMP example to a question mark?
>> Perhaps a good example of why non-BMP characters should be supported.
>
> Your mail client, most likely.
>
> The character is intact in the message as distributed (though I can't
> read it either!).
>
The character concerned was both intact and visible in Christopher's
reply to this list. A question mark may also be the browser response
to the absence of a glyph in any font.
Email clients often have difficulty - this account accepts anything,
but limits what one can send.
John K
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