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Normally there's a single "font of last resort" that's used for particularly obscure characters. Although even those don't cover everything, the extended Egypt
by RobotToaster 7mo ago
Normally there's a single "font of last resort" that's used for particularly obscure characters. Although even those don't cover everything, the extended Egyptian hieroglyphs don't display for me, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_Extended-A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_Extended-...
- cormullion 7mo agoa single font can contain a maximum of about 65000 glyphs, but there are over 150000 defined Unicode glyphs, so a single font of last resort isn’t possible, unfortunately. Complete coverage would require multiple fonts.
- RobotToaster 7mo agoI've never looked into this in detail before, you're right, it looks like android has over 100. Although composite font representation is supposed to fix this.