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0 pointsRobotToaster15d ago0 comments

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-...

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cormullion15d ago

a 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.

RobotToasterOP15d ago

I'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.

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cormullion15d ago

RobotToasterOP15d ago

I'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.

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