Cult-like behaviour [was Re: Kindness]

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2018 11:57:25 Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:48 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 15 July 2018 16:09:21 Chris Angelico wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:22 AM, James Lee <jlee54 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > On 7/15/2018 3:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> >> >> No. The real ten billion dollar question is how people in 2018
>> >> >> can stick their head in the sand and take seriously the position
>> >> >> that Latin-1 (let alone ASCII) is enough for text strings.
>> >> >
>> >> > Easy - for many people, 90% of the Python code they write is not
>> >> > intended for world-wide distribution, let alone use.
>> >> >
>> >> > The smart thing would be for a language to have a switch of some
>> >> > sort to turn on/off all I18N features.
>> >>
>> >> Earlier I cited an example of round-tripping from human to human
>> >> via various web protocols. Here's an actual example of a Twitch
>> >> stream title:
>> >>
>> >> 🌱【 Stardew Valley Fanart 】🌱*:･ﾟ✧【 800 Subpoints = NEW EMOTE
>> >> 】#devicat #anime #stardewvalley #fantasy
>> >
>> > Ok, I'll bite. What font would be used to properly display the
>> > above?
>>
>> Not sure, but the default fonts in my web browser, text editor, and
>> terminal all have no problems with it. I'm on Debian Linux running
>> Xfce, fwiw. Haven't had any issues anywhere.
>>
>> ChrisA
>
> Whereas I am on wheezy, 32 bit pae, using TDE as a desktop, with
> kmail-1.9-10-enterprise, using a 14 point unifont for the message body
> display.
>
> Its a nice clear, very readable font for these elderly eyes. I just tried
> several of the more std fonts w/o affecting the display of the
> rectangles you see above.  Hence the question and thread noise.
> Apparently, and despite being set for utf-8, I don't have a font capable
> of displaying this string in its entirety as I've just tried a couple
> dozen more.
>
> Thanks ChrisA.

Oh! I just remembered. Try installing (through apt-get or equivalent)
the "unifont" package. It'll drag in a few fonts designed to provide
good coverage of all of Unicode, making them available as fallback
fonts. That way, when you use a font that doesn't have all the
characters, it'll use that for the bulk of the text, but instead of
the rectangles that you're seeing, you'll get the correct glyphs.

ChrisA