CODEWITHSUNDEEP
unicodefonts
MicroVirus
MicroVirus

Reputation: 5477

Codepoint of the 'missing glyph'-box

When a textbox, browser or other program can't display a character, or the character is not valid unicode, a white-box character is drawn instead to represent the missing glyph.

I assume that this box-glyph is a Unicode character itself, thus I am looking for its codepoint so I can use it. Does anyone know which codepoint is used, or perhaps if my assumption is wrong and it is not necessarily a member of the font?

At first I thought it might be the White Square (U+25A1), but, after I compared this glyph with an example, I found white square was smaller. There is a larger variant of it (medium and large), but these do not appear in the font under consideration, so these can not be the ones I am seeing.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2828

Answers (1)

MicroVirus
MicroVirus

Reputation: 5477

I managed to find my answer, here on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22636426/2718186

Particularly, the part that talks about .notdef glyph. It seems that fonts reserve a special glyph, that is not mapped to by any Unicode point, to indicate that a character has no glyph in the current font.

Upvotes: 4

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