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> useless symbols? Just because they are useless to you doesn't mean they are useless to everyone.
by amake 10y ago
> useless symbols?
Just because they are useless to you doesn't mean they are useless to everyone.
- cJ0th 10y agoTrue but I think that is also problematic. The more symbols there are the less likely it is that every font covers all the symbols that someone might find important. For instance, I often get e-mails with characters that can't be displayed because my standard fonts (on linux) don't have them. The "missing unicode symbol" icon is the new "picture not found" icon[0] In fact, it is even worse as there is no alt attribute that delineates what I am supposed to see. [0] Remember this one? https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/425274582581264384/X3QXBN8C_400x400.jpeg https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/425274582581264384/X3QX...
- vardump 10y ago> The more symbols there are the less likely it is that every font covers all the symbols that someone might find important. Why would every font need to cover them in the first place? Just one is enough with symbolic characters, sufficient to display them. Text renderers can deal with that. No font coverage is also fine, at least the data is preserved.
- nomercy400 10y agoCan't the linux font people add these additions to their fonts? It wouldn't be a huge challenge to fix this, would it?
- amake 10y ago> the less likely it is that every font covers all the symbols that someone might find important That is a meaningless requirement. The symbols I use on a daily basis already don't exist in a single font. Operating systems handle font fallback just fine.
- cJ0th 10y agoFair enough but there is no common fallback font that is used by all systems (win, osx, linux, android ...) as a default. Take this page for example: http://emojipedia.org/faq/ http://emojipedia.org/faq/ Only a fraction of the emojis is displayed on my laptop. (maybe 20%)