[Localization] Fwd: Last resort font

[Jim Gettys]

On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 11:49 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Ed Trager <ed.trager at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, Everyone,
> >
> > This might be a good time to note that SIL provides a Unicode
> > "fallback" font under the Open Font License which displays the Unicode
> > value in hexadecimal:
> >
> >       http://scripts.sil.org/UnicodeBMPFallbackFont
> >
> > The SIL fallback font can be quite useful for debugging purposes.
> 
> s/useful/essential/

Pango already does this, IIRC, without needing a fallback font.  And the
size of the font is very large (3.8 MB).
                    - Jim

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