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amake
on June 23, 2016
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How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode...
> 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
on June 23, 2016
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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
on June 25, 2016
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Unicode supplies sample glyphs for all characters. That's plenty.
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Again, meaningless. Why should there have to be a common fallback font?