René J.V. Bertin posted on Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:13:22 +0200 as excerpted:
> On Tuesday August 01 2023 04:54:34 Duncan wrote:
>
>>What I'm saying is that if you can see them in my message, you /must/
>>have at least one font installed that can display them! =:^)
>
> Not necessarily if he's using some kind of web interface (in a proper
> browser) which leverages webfonts for this kind of thing. ;^)
Valid and very good point.
(Being old-school, or for many I suppose just old, I tend to default to a
local mail client assumption, unless someone specifically says otherwise.
But webmail's likely a more accurate default these days, and for the
browser, not everyone runs uBlock-origin in default-deny mode including no
off-main-site webfonts (or similar) by default for security as I do either,
so they actually see the web-fonts. So valid and very good point, indeed.)
Rather invalidates my assumptions about having at least one font that
includes those characters, unfortunately, which could then invalidate that
whole workaround...
Unless of course he's willing to install, perhaps under his home dir, an
appropriate font with the necessary code-point coverage, if there's none
available in the distro fonts packages. FWIW I believe google's noto font
set is supposed to have the widest coverage, and noto sans is what I had
kcharselect set to when I selected the characters.
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