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| bio | website | cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela |
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| location | Finland | |
| age | 61 | |
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| seen | Oct 27 '12 at 5:27 | |
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I’m an author and a consultant who specializes in character codes, localization, web authoring, accessibility, and typography. Author of Unicode Explained and Going Global with JavaScript and Globalize.js.
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May 31 |
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Ubuntu logo into Unicode table As a matter of policy, Unicode does not encode logos as characters. This is expressed in Ch. 1 of the standard, unicode.org/latest/Unicode6.1.0/ch01.pdf near end of page 2. (Anything in a Private Use Area is up to agreements between interested parties, and should not be expected to work in any context outside such agreements.) |
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May 11 |
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What has changed in unicode font rendering since 11.04? Firefox would pick it up because none of the specific fonts listed contains a glyph for the character, and either the generic font name sans-serif has been set to refer to VL PGothic or Firefox looks for fallback fonts. Browsers differ in their handling of situations where none of the fonts listed, including the one indirectly mentioned using a generic name, contains the character—browsers may scan through all fonts, or give up. The Ubuntu font, as just downloaded from font.ubuntu.com, does not contain U+2E29. I suppose the dialog boxes use fallback fonts. |
