Re: Displaying Unicode - font substitution for missing glyphs

John Brown <[email protected]> writes:

> Jason Rumney wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> Things can go wrong at steps 2 and 3, either because of deficiencies in
>> the fonts themselves, or in Windows reporting of scripts covered by the
>> font.
>> 
>
> Perhaps, but if there are such problems, Firefox is not affected.
> Neither is Internet Explorer. I am unable to spot any unrecognised
> characters when either browser displays
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt.

I think browsers on Windows tend to have a hardcoded fallback to
"Arial Unicode MS" if all else fails.  This font is commonly installed
on Windows, and covers all the Basic Multilingual Plane. But it is a
variable width font, so Emacs does not consider it a candidate when
looking for monospaced fonts.