[OT] Re: has sourceforge exposed the dirty little secret ?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Jan 7 19:38:37 EST 2018


On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> And here, unifont showed them as empty boxes. So does that point the
> finger of guilt to kmail? This is the TDE, R14.0.5 version. Hundreds of
> bugs fixed since the fork at KDE-3.5.
>

Huh. I've no idea, then, but it's entirely possible that (a) the font
actually doesn't have those characters, or (b) kmail uses a 16-bit
renderer. The latter is why Idle can't render astral characters -
Tcl/Tk is limited to the BMP.

ChrisA



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