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> 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 dail

by 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 ago
Fair 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%)
- lsaferite 10y ago
  As a data point, my laptop shows every emoji through Unicode 8.0 just fine.
- amake 10y ago
  > there is no common fallback font that is used by all systems (win, osx, linux, android ...) as a default. Again, meaningless. Why should there have to be a common fallback font?
  - cJ0th 10y ago
    to make sure that even the most idiosyncratic choice of characters can be displayed everywhere according to the intention of the person who picked them.
    - amake 10y ago
      Unicode supplies sample glyphs for all characters. That's plenty.