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* Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxx.xxxx.xxx> [2005-10-17 06:25]: > Stuff like ☭, on the other hand... Mostly a font issue. The infrastructure is in place. I can’t *see* the character, but it’s gonna show up in this mail unmangled. Several projects exist which aim to create fonts with glyphs for all or at least a lot of Unicode, but it’s just an incredibly vast undertaking to make even one font that covers just the BMP’s 65536 characters (even though there are holes in the code point set), let alone all of the astral planes. And until distributors provide it OOTB, it’s a *MASSIVE* pain to get UTF-8 support set up. It took me a lot of sweat to get all the pieces just right so mailing in English, Greek and German all work equally well. As a bonus, Chinese spam gets displayed correctly as well… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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