prl wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 13:31
IMO, the correct replacement would be U+FFFD (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER), but, unfortunately, I suspect that that is missing in all fonts.
That would make a lot more sense. Out of interest, I checked all the font families in my Windows font directory, and only 6 families have a glyph (diamond with a question mark within) for that position, the minority by far.
As it happens, 3 of the PVR fonts do contain this glyph: Droid Sans Bold, the Open Sans family and the Roboto family.
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However, while the T4 and U4 have lots of firmware flash, the T2 and T3 only have 512MB.
The current fonts aren't very large: the ones used for general text display are ~150-350kB each.
That would make it a little tight then for T2/T3. Some of those multi lingual glyph fonts run into the 10s MB.
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tuxtxt.ttf is aliased to Console, and isn't much used in easy-skin-aus-hd (mostly for the Console screen, and not much elsewhere). The most widely used font alias in the skin is Regular, which is aliased to nmsbd.ttf. nmsbd.ttf
You are quite right. My apologies to all for my Vera Sans tangent, I had my fonts mixed.
A consequence of a dozen consoles/windows/crap open on the screen at once!
Anyhoo, I substituted Nemesis Flatline with a font that does contain a U+FFFD, just to confirm what you already know prl
, that this glyph is indeed not rendered as a substitute for non-existant glyphs.
I also substituted Malgun Gothic (~13MB) from my Windows fonts directory. This is a good font to try because it contains both Latin and Japanese glyphs:
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Success! Well, partially. Just to refresh, we should see this:
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-rw-rw-rw- 1 admin everyone 0 Jun 7 11:19 ==冨田勲++.txt
drwxrwsrwx 3 Steve everyone 4096 Feb 18 2016 冨田勲/
drwxrwsrwx 13 Steve everyone 4096 Apr 19 2016 喜多郎/
drwxrwsrwx 4 Steve everyone 4096 Feb 18 2016 坂本龍一/
So even this particular font appears not to be complete. But at least this exercise has confirmed the issue is with the font and not the GUI.
I tried searching for a more complete Nemesis Flatline font, but the only references seem to be with other PVRs, including a Nemesis Flatline skin. This font also contains no copyright/source information, so I suspect it is something rolled together for a particular skin.
Would it be worth the effort (for completeness?) to modify the GUI to use U+FFFD to substitute non-existent glyphs, and either use the glyph from one of the other supplied fonts or add it to Nemesis Flatline?