Talk:Fallback font

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♦ copied from Talk:Last Resort font:

Well, there's this article and then there's the info on the same font in Fonts on the Mac. And also in Fallback font. What should be done? Please let's discuss this here and decide. Evertype 19:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

If there's any useful information in one article that the other two don't have...why not merge all those articles to Fallback font (since that's the most general article) and bring up the Mac-specific topics in a section? --Ingeborg S. Nordén 23:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)    ♦

I've merged and redirected Last Resort; Fonts on the Mac is untouched. Here are both original paragraphs, for comparison:

LastResort is a Mac OS font that is invisible to the end user, but is used by the system to display glyphs that are not available in any other font. The symbols provided by LastResort place glyphs into categories based on their location in the Unicode system and provide a hint to the user about which font or script is required to view the unavailable characters. The symbols provided by LastResort are square with rounded corners with a bold outline. In the left and right sides of the outline, the Unicode range that the character belongs to is given using hexadecimal digits. Top and bottom are used for one or two descriptions of the Unicode block. Michael Everson designed the glyphs for this font.

Apple's LastResort font was first included in Mac OS 8.5, for the benefit of applications using Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging. It is also used in Mac OS X. Designed by Michael Everson of Evertype, the symbols adhere to a unified design. The glyphs are square with rounded corners with a bold outline. In the left and right sides of the outline, the Unicode range that the character belongs to is given using hexadecimal digits. Top and bottom are used for one or two descriptions of the Unicode block name. A symbol representative of the block is centered inside the square.

John Reid 09:53, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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