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yarlinghe • 12/25/2025 • 2 replies • view on HN

Planning to add more symbol-specific notes (confusables, common pitfalls, rendering quirks). Curious what details people usually look for but can’t find.

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layer8 • last Tuesday at 5:39 PM

The useful info that doesn’t already exist a dozen times on the web is the info you can’t auto-generate.

__patchbit__ • 12/25/2025

I don't know how to find the ideal font for the missing glyph on my environment which is BSD.

Using the `unicode' command from plan9userspace, for example

   unicode 2ff0-2fff
the last three symbols are shown inside emacs as squares with the four hex values inside.

Typing in the search field `2fff' finds `no match found'.

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