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Browsers will generally do "fallback" to some other font, if the font(s) named in the CSS don't support the characters present in the text. But for some of the
by jfk13 4y ago
Browsers will generally do "fallback" to some other font, if the font(s) named in the CSS don't support the characters present in the text. But for some of the rarer characters, you may not have any available font that supports them.
- Someone 4y agoSee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font. It typically isn’t a browser feature, but an OS one. Since 1998 MacOS has a “last resort” font that has glyphs (not necessarily unique) for every Unicode code point. They donated it to Unicode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font#Unicode_Last_Resort_font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font#Unicode_Last_Res...), so I expect most OSes running full-blown modern browsers to have it or something similar (those running smaller browser engines may be too space constrained to have room for it)