<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello,<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Following a question I posted on Stack Exchange Super User (<a href="http://superuser.com/questions/1017269/is-it-possible-that-a-specific-browser-does-not-support-some-unicode" target="_blank">http://superuser.com/questions/1017269/is-it-possible-that-a-specific-browser-does-not-support-some-unicode</a>) I was suggested to reach out to the epiphany mailing list for specific information. <div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">I was subsequently redirected to the webkit one. </div>Below is a copy of my initial question.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px">I wrote a HTML5/CSS/JS application which displays some text in <a href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid%20Sans:400,700" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(80,174,198)" target="_blank"><code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Droid Sans</code></a> (loaded directly from Google at page load). When developing under Windows, unicode characters are displayed correctly in Chrome.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px">I started the application with <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web" rel="nofollow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(80,174,198)" target="_blank"><code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">epiphany</code></a> in Linux and some unicode characters are not displayed correctly:</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1em 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">\u00b0</code> is fine</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">\ud83d\udd15</code> is not displayed at all</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px">What could be the reason for that?</p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1em 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px"><li style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;word-wrap:break-word">It should not be the font as the same one is used in both Windows and Linux (the remaining of the page looks good).</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;word-wrap:break-word">This brings me to the browser: could it be the culprit? (I specifically need to use <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">epiphany</code> as others I tried do not support some features correctly, CSS' <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">flexbox</code> among others)</li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px">In other words: <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">is it possible that a browser does not support <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">some</em> unicode characters, others being displayed correctly (and all of them being fine in another browser on another platform, with the same font)?</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px">Thank you for any help regarding this - this character which does not display is a crossed bell to indicate that alarm clocks are not set at home, which, as you can imagine, is a national security level kind of issue.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px">WoJ</p></font></span></font></span></div></div>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">PS. I initially sent the email from the wrong (not subscription) address. I believe that my email was rejected (no feedback though), if this is not the case my apologies for the double post.</div><br></div>
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