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Why is that the same unicode character, in the same machine, can has two (or maybe more) different designs? Check this screenshot: http://i38.tinypic.com/2pqqnt
by reazalun 18y ago
Why is that the same unicode character, in the same machine, can has two (or maybe more) different designs? Check this screenshot: http://i38.tinypic.com/2pqqntj.jpg http://i38.tinypic.com/2pqqntj.jpg
(FF, Windows XP)
- shiro 18y agoUnicode specifies a "character", which is somewhat an abstract entity and is different from "glyph", which is a visual representation of the character. One character can be mapped to different glyphs. Usually glyphs are determined by fontset. In your case I assume glyphs of the snowman character in the fontset for the text entry and in the fontset for the text display are different. It is a common experience for East Asians; the same CJK kanji character sometimes has different glyphs for Chinese and Japanese. It is still quite a hassle to fix all fontset to show them right (I gave up.)