On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:24 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@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 <ghesk...@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 <jle...@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: >> >> >> >> π±γ Stardew Valley Fanart γπ±*:ο½₯οΎβ§γ 800 Subpoints = NEW EMOTE >> >> γ#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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
