Description
Some weirdness with viewing Unicode glyphs, even on a machine with fallback fonts.
A font with full fallback for every Unicode code point still won't show anything but a square for some things.
Try pasting this into Notepad++
Interobangs on one line:‽‽
Upper unicode characters (16 or 32-bits? not just 8-bit from the Basic Multilingual Plane) on a separate line: [ 🔊, 🎥, 📕 ]
Interobangs followed by some upper Unicode characters on the same line: ‽‽ , [ 🔊, 🎥, 📕 ]
arrows on the same line : ↑↓↙↘.
arrows on 2 lines : ↑↓
↙↘.
Now, a user should have some fallback fonts setup, as described here with "Font Linking" (which is different than straight-up 'fallback font'), it uses GDI
[https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688134.aspx]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Micrrosoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink
Here is a list of "Font Linked" fonts I'm using with Arial Unicode MS under that registry setting.
unifont_csur-7.0.06.ttf, Unifont CSUR
unifont_upper_csur-7.0.06.ttf, Unifont Upper CSUR
Constructium.ttf, Constructium
Nuvenon.ttf, Nuvenon
LastResort.ttf, LastResort
UnicodeBMPFallback.ttf, Unicode BMP Fallback SIL
This Font Linked list ought to cover every single Unicode code point with SOME glyph, but it seems Notepad++ can't handle Unicode well or doesn't take advantage of GDI ?
the problem is also described here:
[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20749958/unicode-characters-messed-up-after-linebreak]
!‽???‽!!! , 🔊, 🎥, 📕