I recently found myself the victim of a certain font-related bug in Mac OS X. To put it succinctly, it seems that when there are multiple fonts available to use for glyph substitution, whatever unknown criteria are used to determine their priority can sometimes result in extremely poor glyph choice.
In my case, it was Black Star (U+2605 in Unicode). My system was …
Did you know that ‘roundup’ is not hyphenated? I didn’t, prior to this post. That means the herbicide’s name really is grammatically correct—something that seems to be rare among products and marketing slogans these days. But that’s not really the point of this post, so I’ll leave my linguistic ramblings for another time.
I’m a month late for an end-of-the-year post, ...
