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#2 Some fonts appear as squares

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nobody
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2007-05-10
2007-05-10
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Certain fonts are displayed as squares. These fonts are all default fonts shipped with Microsoft Windows XP. They are all unicode based fonts, but some unicode fonts are displayed properly (e.g. Lucida Sans Unicode).

I noticed other font viewers do the same thing when displaying these same fonts, including Windows Font Viewer. However, other programs display them correctly (e.g. OpenOffice).

The fonts that display as squares are:

* Estrangelo Edessa
* Gautami
* Latha
* Mangal
* Marlett
* MV Boli
* OpenSymbol
* Raavi
* Shruti
* Symbol
* Tunga
* Webdings
* Wingdings

Some other non-default fonts display as squares too, like MICR Free.

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