POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Unicode : Re: Unicode Server Time
28 Jul 2024 18:13:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Unicode  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 15 Jun 2013 19:47:03
Message: <51bcfcf7$1@news.povray.org>
On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:08:15 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>> The link you found, though - very interesting.  I wonder...
>>
>> 😹
>>
>> Yep, it's in the GNOME3 charmap app. :)
> 
> I was wondering... Just because a Unicode codepoint exists, does not
> mean that any font anywhere on Earth actually has a glyph for it. But
> apparently whatever monospace font Thunderbird uses does... (Not that
> the glyph is legible.)

Well, true, and I see many unicode characters in the charmap application 
that don't render for me.

But it's fun to see that there are a lot that do.  I was surprised when I 
was looking at the Egyptian hieroglyphs codepage that those actually do 
render on my system.

Jim


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