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matthewmacleod
on Aug 24, 2016
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That's just inaccurate – AFAIK all modern icon fonts make use of the Unicode PUA, which is specifically intended for this sort of application. The characters used have no semantic meaning beyond what the application, including its fonts, intend.
zeveb
on Aug 24, 2016
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> That's just inaccurate – AFAIK all modern icon fonts make use of the Unicode PUA, which is specifically intended for this sort of application.
Why, then, does one see all sorts of strange characters on web pages which use icon fonts?
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