And the last reason is that someone who can design a lovely font for English characters probably can’t design Arabic or Chinese characters with the same skill, and vice versa. Another reason is size – having plain, bold and italic versions of 65k characters leads to awfully big font files, and users would complain. One is that there’s over 100k possible characters in Unicode, but most fonts are limited to 65k characters, so some will have to be left out. You might ask why fonts will leave out whole chunks of Unicode characters, like Chinese? There’s several reasons. This is a function of the font, not Ignition or Java. The empty rectangle is because the font has no idea how to display the character it’s being asked to display. To add more technical detail for those who care…
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