Re: replacement character

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh farsiweb info>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:58 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I wonder why some fonts have the glyph I would expect there, a question
> mark on some dark background (Fixed), or just a black square (Console),

Those are fine.

> but most of the text fonts, in particular Bitstream Vera, have something
> that looks similar to a cedilla or comma. Is that a traditional symbol
> used to indicate unknown characters ? I would be much happier to have a
> more questionmarkesque glyph in all fonts...

That's weird and very probably a bug or something in Bitstream Vera.
(There is a small chance it's a workaround for some bug somewhere, but
it's clearly not a traditional symbold for unknown characters.)

roozbeh