From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2009 - 16:29:54 CST
John Hudson wrote:
> Leo Broukhis wrote:
>
>> Oops. Take that back, my hissing should be directed at Microsoft. It's
>> not Code2000, it's Times New Roman.
>
> I've checked the cmap table of Vista Times New Roman, and there is no
> mapping for U+1E9E. However, the font does not appear to contain a
> .notdef glyph, which is the normal display when a font does not
> support a character in the text string. It has an empty box glyph in
> the GID 0 position of the font, which is where the .notdef glyph
> belongs, but this glyph is encoded as U+0000 and is called /uni0000/
> in the post table, so will not be reliably treated as .notdef. I'm not
> sure why the application or browser is choosing to display the
> unsupported character as S with cedilla. It seems a pretty random choice.
I also saw S with cedilla. SOME font on my system has that glyph in
that place; it shows up in other contexts for it, but haven't tracked it
down yet...
I guess someone was already using that spot.
~mark
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