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anthklast Monday at 8:33 PM1 replyview on HN

They said the same about ISO-8859-* encodings, Webdings/Windings fonts under Windows. Gone. Forever.


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kragenlast Monday at 9:51 PM

Wingdings is available in OTF format to put on your web site as a webfont: https://www.onlinewebfonts.com/fonts/wingdings_OTF

So is Webdings: https://www.dafontfree.io/webdings-font/

Webdings even got integrated into Unicode 7.0, so all the Noto fonts support it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings

And recode(1) has full support for ISO-8859-*. As does iconv and the Python3 encodings.codecs module. I'm pretty sure browsers can render pages in them, too. Firefox keeps rendering UTF-8 pages as if they were ISO-8859-1 encoded when I screw up at setting the charset parameter on their content-type.

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