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Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0 by JetSpiegel on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @09:51AM (#7904379)
Hopefully it will stop the nonsense of having custom fonts in websites for icons. Which can be copied and turn out to be a "t" or something.
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Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0 by scrollaway on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @07:43PM (#7907732)
It won't. Those custom fonts you speak about not only use characters which aren't, and never would be in the unicode database (such as trademarked logos), but also draw from the private unicode blocks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas

Which means there's no sanely written font that would use a "t" for an icon. Wingdings is not a sanely written font.

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