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Place Of Interest


Day 3 on Windows XP.  I note the Mozilla does not display the (a.k.a. Place Of Interest) sign on Planet Intertwingly.  I had put that in as a placeholder for all feeds that do not supply an icon.  I try Opera.  It doesn’t show up there either.  I try Safari.  Also not there.

On Mozilla, I see a question mark.  Opera and Safari show a rectangle.

The problem turns out that Windows XP does come with a proper Unicode font.  Jacques Distler has some recommendations.

Even with the font installed, I still see a rectangle in putty -cygterm, even though I have utf-8 turned on, and have :set encoding=utf-8 in my .vimrc.  Copying and pasting that rectangle to an HTML textarea shows the corect symbol, however.

I’ve noticed other oddities in Cygwin, like:

Purchase order 5003020074 has been placed for a hard drive for Ubuntu.  While it will certainly do in a pinch, Cygwin is rapidly ceasing to be a place of interest to me.  I long for the real thing.