Re: [h-e-w] Displaying Unicode - font substitution for missing glyphs

[John Brown]

I sent the message below to you instead of the list.

Jason Rumney wrote:
> 

> 
> I think browsers on Windows tend to have a hardcoded fallback to
> "Arial Unicode MS" if all else fails.  This font is commonly installed
> on Windows, and covers all the Basic Multilingual Plane. But it is a
> variable width font, so Emacs does not consider it a candidate when
> looking for monospaced fonts.
>

I tried "Arial Unicode MS" in Emacs. It seems to lack several characters
in the "Mathematics and sciences" section of the sample file, so the
web browsers were not using this font for those characters.

Regards,
John Brown.