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NoTo[^] is a google font set, which contains
Every.
Single.
Symbol.
And.
Character.
In.
The
Unicode.
Specification.
That means the "tofu" character ⯐ would never appear again, and what you write in your code will display the same in any other computer with the font set loaded. And ... it's Open Source, and Google say they are committed to keeping it up to date with spec changes.
Think about that for a moment.
Downloading now...all 473Mb of 'em... 
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This is awesome! I hope in real life the "tofu" will look like a "bacon" 
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Vincent Maverick Durano wrote: I hope in real life the "tofu" will look like a "bacon"
But it still won't taste like bacon. 
Marc
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and it never will...ever.
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To save everyone else the trouble I downloaded "NOTO MONO" and tested it as a font in Visual Studio.
It's OK, but Consolas gives crossed zeros and is just as, if not more clear - if you don't use embedded characters not in it's set.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hi Forogar, Thanks for the quick review: no crossed zeroes are a deal-breaker for me in terms of use in Visual Studio Forogar wrote: if you don't use embedded characters not in it's set
Could you clarify what you refer to here ?
thanks, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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The big advantage of NOTO is that it theoretically has a definition for every single character in the Unicode character set.
Consolas does not have this, only the most common characters plus a goodly selection of weird ones I hardly ever or would never see myself using.
To date, I have never used a character outside of this "limited" set and so have never had any TOFU issues in my code editor display. I used the word "Embedded" to hint at text within a string literal that might get embedded, included, wrapped or placed within your source code - as apart from text loaded from external sources such as databases or configuration data, etc.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It's quite fascinating looking at all the different styles of text. Some are quite beautiful (actually most other than English and countries where English derived from.) 
Marc
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Thanks for posting this. The females in my family are all graphic artists and they are always interested in new fonts, especially if they are free 
I had a look at the fonts. They are fairly simple in style. That means they are more universally applicable than more fancy or complicated fonts.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I'm not going to be Evil and ignore it's existence 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Out of curiosity, I downloaded the NoTo Color Emoji font: win 10 won't recognize that as a valid fond and display it, or install it. No evidence of a corrupted zip file, either. I will re-download it again in a few days and see ...
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Confirmed: The color Emoji fonts is not valid on Win 10. The regular Emoji font does install, though, but Word refuses to accept it. The font in Word keeps switching to Courier! 
[edit] I tried Noto Sans Batak. It installs on Win 10, works in Excel, will not work in Word or Adobe's Photoshop CS2. I'm beginning to get a bad feeling about these fonts  By the way: I use MS Office 2010.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 7-Oct-16 20:39pm.
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Hi Cornelius, thanks for the heads-up on the Color Emoji set in Win 10.
I interpret your additional reports on those fonts in various apps as indicative of the fact we are a long way, yet, from consistency in handling Unicode.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I got teh same problem when I installed - I suspect that Google will fix it pretty quickly... 
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I don't need all of them, just the English ones, and then Hebrew for my studies of the Kabbalah and Tarot, but I prefer Hebrew with serifs, which they don't have. Looks nice and old; more traditional.
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What, it doesn't support Klingon!?
I can only say 
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Contact these people: http://unicode.org/[^] and ask nicely.
In Klingon.
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It is a nice idea, however Monotype missed something there...Take the Noto Sans and Noto Sans Hebrew...Both have coverage for the Basic Latin code-point...However those are totally differ...The size factor, the letter spacing and the pen width are all different between the two!!!
(And I do not know how it is with other languages, but in Hebrew it is almost unreadable on continuous text)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I searched google for how to do something. Turns out I found a link to an answer I posted years ago in QA for somebody else. 
I'm glad CP can remember things longer than I can. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I use my own articles to look up how to do things
At least I remember writing the articles 
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You should be thanking google 
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Embarrassing that, isn't it?
I've done it a couple of times as well...
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So, the question is, you don't remember the stuff you used to know a year ago?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: to know a year ago?
3 years to be fair.
And no, I look things up all the time and store in short term memory.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Heads up guys, we have a programmer.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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