From the Brain of Matty

(12.10.07 3:41 pm)

Lots has happened, because it's been so long. But I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about an amazing discovery upon which I stumbled just now. Apparently one of our fonts here at work contains glyphs in the Private Use area that appear to report the height of the font in pixels! When you make the text bigger or smaller it says something different!. And since the codepoints that use said glyph ar uF000 and uF001, we're guessing the glyphs are there as helpers for font creators and typographers. Here are those characters, in different sizes:

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It may not (probably won't) work in Windows, and I don't know which font it is, because Linux supports the proper "fallback" behaviour (if any font supports it, every program will see it, no matter which font you specify.) If it doesn't work, use a less crap operating system.

Also, we are going to Cairns tomorrow to buy a new car; Shell is pregnant; I worked the Silverchair/Powderfinger concerts both nights.. that's about it. Chao!