Re: UTF-8 Terminals

[Andreas Marcel Riechert <riechert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> I forget exactly which program it was I saw recently but it had a nice
> variation for showing the Unicode fonts it didn't know much about:
> instead of showing the customary empty/black boxes or upside-down
> exclamation marks, it did have some knowledge of the *script ranges*
> it didn't know more about, so it showed little generic icons:
> a katakana symbol (again, I have no idea what it was :-), but I
> recognized it to be kata) where there were katakana, a devanagari
> symbol where there was Indic, an Arabic gyph where there were Arabic
> letters, and so on.  So even if the font didn't have all the glyphs
> available, you could still see a general idea of what you had.

Maybe you are talking about the "Last Resort Font":
See eg.
http://fonts.apple.com/LastResort/LastResort.html

Andreas




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