(I also recommend not to use ctrl characters in forums, better use the old shortcuts: NUL, SOH. Might be confusing on a first look, but is pretty usefull. not the flaw i've first written: "most possible")īut nevertheless the glyph could be any for example a whitespace (= "blank" - i assume). (The first two glyphs have been implemented for most TTF's i have seen, so: "most probable". "), a vertical rectangle containing a question mark, and a vertical rectangle with diagonals.
=> When using fonts typically the ".notdef" glyph is used, which is recommended to be a vertical rectangle (= "empty square in the editor. (this is more helpfull, when analyzing streams). If you want to force displaying this character you have to use the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER:īut actual use is: Only use this glyph to display errors in stream/coding/. Unicode org has defined to use no glyph because it is a ctrl character (="invisible" width=height=0 but it still is there and could be copied). (because the the method of truetype fonts, to use the ".notdef" glyph if a character cannot be rendered, is older). The (more or less) funny thing is this is mostly not rendered as defined by There you see, that ANSI character 0x07 is mapped to U+0007. Nowadays, this definition of cp 437, 850. (for example under MS-DOS 6.22):ītw: Your "screen print" is looking really strange: The "large round dot" is mostly used by old(er) applications using this definition of cp 437, 850. The different visualizations of that ctrl-character depends on the definition used (sounds abstract).
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