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PhMajerus opened this issue Feb 18, 2025 · 1 comment
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Request for glyph: � (U+FFFD) #148

PhMajerus opened this issue Feb 18, 2025 · 1 comment

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PhMajerus commented Feb 18, 2025

The (U+FFFD) "Replacement Character" is used in Unicode to represent a missing, unknown, lost, or invalid character.
For example, when converting to a specific code page, some conversion function and utilities will use � for characters that do not exist in the target code page. If a transmission error occurs in a text stream, lost characters may be replaced by �. When a graphical API must render text and some of the codepoints to display do not exist in the selected font, it will often replace them with � as well to clearly show those are missing.

Here's a design suggestion:
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And I would add (U+FFFC) along with it:
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Note this glyph is often designed as a large [OBJ], but terminals consider it a single cell width, so this design fits without overflowing.

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Characters and are now included in PR #144.

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