Re: Glyph rendering voodoo

Hi Everybody,

U+F8E8 seems to be located in the Private Use Area and, at least on my 
system, shows a Tibetan "Huu" (consonant h with subscript u + a-chung). 
The combination u+a-chung has its own code point, U+0F75 the use of 
which is discouraged.

Best, Oliver.



On 15/03/2026 14:07, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> Well, probably not voodoo but very strange to me. Try this:
>
>    echo "\\\f[U-S]\[uF8E8]\f" | groff -Tpdf | pdftotext - -
>    
> And if you see the same as me, you'll see a white circle with an
> intersection symbol in it.
>
> Now, try instead and send the same output to a file:
>
>    echo "\\\f[U-S]\[uF8E8]\f" | groff -Tpdf >t.pdf
>    
> Open the file in your preferred pdf-viewer and you should see a circle with
> an 'R' in it (registered trademark?), i.e. a completely different glyph.
>
> pdftotext should not be responsible because groff has already done its job.
>
> If you see the same, could you explain this to me - or maybe just slap my
> face so it points in the right direction ;)
>
> Regards,
> Morten
>
>
>
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