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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by jasonszhao on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:36AM (#11959055)
If I understand correctly, Unicode only provides the semantic meaning, not the actual rendering. The font provides information for how to render it. Am I right?
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by valleyer on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:22AM (#11959385)
Yes, though they provide guidance on how they should look, and in most cases, there is only one font on the system that has a glyph for some of these more esoteric code points, and it usually provides a reasonable representation.
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