From: James Kass (thunder-bird@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jan 22 2009 - 03:34:00 CST
Dominikus Scherkl wrote,
>> U+1E9E (ẞ) in the chart displays just fine here with Internet Explorer 7.
>
>What I see in this place is an uppercase T with short stem below
>(both on the website and in this eMail).
>
>So I don't know how the system choose a replacement glyph....
I checked the installed fonts here using BabelPad's character map
feature. In the application with the character map fired up and
pointing to the range which includes U+1E9E, the user can click
on the pull-down menu arrow next to the font name and then use
the up/down-pointing arrow keys to scroll through the installed
fonts.
On this system (Win XP), only two installed fonts have anything
mapped to U+1E9E. One of the fonts has CAPITAL SHARP S and
the other has the hex code point in a square. Either is OK, the
hex-code-point-in-a-square font is, of course, a fall-back font.
On the original web page, this system's Internet Explorer grabbed
the CAPITAL SHARP S from the serif font here which includes it.
Even though it looked kind of funky in the sans-serif title, it
was an acceptable font substitution.
However any system chooses a replacement glyph, it would be
better to show a ".notdef" empty rectangle glyph than to choose
an unrelated glyph from some phantom mystery font.
Best regards,
James Kass
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