When I put ∃ (or various other maths characters) into Sublime Text 2 it displays a question mark in a box. It might be � but it's rendered as an upright box instead of a diamond.
I copied � into sublime text and it rendered it in the same way that it rendered ∃.
All the characters in question are rendering correctly in notepad and chrome. I'm on Windows 10 if that matters.
Is there something that I can do to make these characters display properly in Sublime Text?
Update:
As roeland pointed out the issue was that the font being used didn't contain glyphs for the characters. Apparently Unicode complete fonts are uncommon. I'm using http://czyborra.com/unifont/unifont.ttf now (the only good size is 12pt).
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I am in the process of writing a text editor. After looking at other text editors I have noticed that a number of them refer to a "soft" versus "hard" wrap. What is the difference? I can't seem to find the answer by searching.
A hard wrap inserts actual line breaks in the text at wrap points, with soft wrapping the actual text is still on the same line but looks like it's divided into several lines.
It's usual for text editors to auto-wrap text into paragraphs with hard newlines, but it's less common for the text to be re-flowed into a nice paragraph if you come back later and edit/add/remove words later on. (You can do this manually in emacs with M-q.)
This is rather annoying, since obsessive compulsive people like me then go back and have to manually re-insert the hard breaks at the appropriate points.
On the other hand, soft wrapping is annoying because most all command line tools use line-based diff-ing (version control is where this becomes most noticeable to me). If you've got a 1/3-page paragraph that's soft wrapped and fix a typo, it's basically impossible to see where the change is in a regular diff output or similar.
soft : The text in the textarea is not wrapped when submitted in a form. This is default
hard : The text in the textarea is wrapped (contains newlines) when submitted in a form. When "hard" is used, the cols attribute must be specified
Reference: W3Schools
I made a font. Some characters are intended to be combined (one glyph overlaid onto another, similar to प + े = पे).
This works fine when I import the font into a document editor, for instance, Libre Office. It also works fine when I type the script in a textarea in Google Chrome.
However, when the font is used in a textarea in Firefox, a tiny increment is made after each character, even though the horizontal advance is set to 0 in the TTF font file data.
This seems to be something built into Firefox, but it makes the combining look a bit off, and, if I wanted to overlay several characters on each other, it would look very bad. I think I read somewhere that Firefox knows to turn this off for certain fonts, but I cannot figure out how to do it. Or perhaps there's something in the CSS styling for the textarea? I'm at a loss.
Does CSS letter-spacing: 0; make it what it should be, or messing with that negative or positive get you anywhere?
Or check out the property font-kerning as well.
Mysterious problem with Open Sans and ä special character. The dots of Ä are somehow displaced and I can't figure out why.
This also happens only in certain text element on certain page. The same font and Ä character works well in other parts of the same page. This also happens only with Firefox and IE.
I have this CSS:
.icon-plus-circled:before { content: '\e80f'; }
Which is displayed as a white plus inside black circle (Unicode I guess).
Need to make one more class, that would be a white minus inside black circle. But I can't find a Unicode code for that. Does anyone know?
Solved the problem. It was custom font.
There is no Unicode character for a white minus inside black circle.
There is U+2296 CIRCLED MINUS “⊖”, though it is not clear whether you want to use that or rather U+229D CIRCLED DASH “⊝”.
The notation '\e80f' means U+E80F, which is a Private Use code point. This means that the Unicode standard does not assign any character to that code point and promises to never do so. The code point is only for use by private agreements and has no meaning outside such agreements. The code you are using probably sets the font to a privately encoded special font, embedded with #font-face. While this generally works (when implemented properly) in the the sense of displaying the specific symbol, it easily causes trouble e.g. when content is copied and pasted (losing the font assignment).
Consider using images instead. Created in sufficiently large size and then scaled to font size with CSS, they do the job reasonably well.
Unicode number: U+002D HTML-code: '-';
Here is the complete table: http://unicode-table.com/fr/#002D
Unicode characters you might be interested in:
MINUS SIGN (U+2212): − −
HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D): - -
CIRCLED MINUS (U+2296): ⊖ ⊖
CIRCLED DASH (U+229D): ⊝ ⊝
content: '\e80f' Which is displayed as a white plus inside black circle
U+E80F doesn't display as anything for me, that's a Private Use Area character that could render as anything or nothing.
There is no standard Unicode character for a filled circle with a plus or minus removed. Presumably you have some icon font where U+E80F looks like a circled plus. In that case you will have to look up the glyph set for that particular font to see if there is a matching minus.
None of the common icon fonts I know of use U+E80F for circled-plus so possibly you have a custom-made font (from Fontello or similar), in which case no-one can tell what the code point would be for a circled-minus without looking at the font file itself. Possibly the circled-minus might not have been included in it, in which case you'd have to create a new version of the icon font with it in.
Or, as Jukka mentions, switch to images (possibly SVG); icon fonts are a bit of a nasty hack.
I'm working on an ASP.NET website that needs to be internationalized. I'm using .resx files (essentially key-value pairs in a file) to populate static string fields on a page in different languages depending on the chosen culture/locale. I'm implementing Japanese and getting some stubborn vertical strings.
When copy and pasting them into the .resx file, they are horizontal (source of strings is Google Translate, for testing purposes). All of the strings appear normal, but one always displays vertically. The misbehaving string is a few div's deep (like all of them) and only has font-size, font-family, color, and an uppercase transform applied to it.
Removing any or all of the above rules does not change the orientation of the text. I've cleaned the formatting off the offending text with Notepad and shortened it (to ensure it wasn't a length problem). I'm stumped as to why this particular string is stubbornly vertical.
Here is the text in question: ログアウト
(Translation: Logout)
Edit
Clarification of the issue.
What it should look like:
The vertical text in question:
How can I force vertical text to be
horizontal?
Other than the title, I don't really understand your question. I'll take a guess anyway.
Try adding white-space: nowrap to the div that's misbehaving.
Recently I was doing some learning about right-to-left on the web and learned that Unicode characters have a directional property associated with them at the character level. So this might have something to do with that, though I certanily wouldn't know how to ascertain that or fix it, especially given that Google Translate is the source of the strings.
It happens quite often for Asian scripts (not just Japanese but also Korean and Chinese) to have text rendered incorrectly. Usually you just need to play with element width, especially if it is part of HTML table.