U + F8FF
The Unicode character U + F8FF () is the last code point within the Private Use Area block . The symbol is not defined uniformly, but it is used by many fonts and systems. What the symbol represents therefore largely depends on the font used to represent the symbol.
use
Under Mac OS and Mac OS X , many of the fonts supplied by Apple have the Apple logo . However, the Apple symbol is also visible for fonts that do not contain the symbol, since under Mac OS X - according to Unicode - non-existing characters in a font are automatically extracted from other fonts and implemented at runtime when the respective text is played back. Mac OS X primarily uses the system-internal DFonts, a Mac OS X-specific variant of the TrueType format. In this case, the Apple symbol is derived from the system font " Lucida Grande " or " 
Helvetica Neue ”.
By converting a font that contains the Unicode character, the display can also be implemented under other operating systems. It is therefore possible to use the corresponding font with third-party programs such as Crossfont or dfontifier under Windows.
- The shortcut on Mac OS X is ⌥, ⇧and +.
- Some Imitari character sets use it for the Old English symbol Ð (eth).
Web links
- Apple Support: Mac OS X Developer Library Uniform Type Identifiers Reference ( Memento from June 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 200 kB), as of September 6, 2011
- Test page to check successful integration
- CrossFont details
Individual evidence
- ↑ Apple Support Knowledge Base: Mac OS X: Font file formats , accessed February 2, 2005
- ↑ Acute Systems: CrossFont ( CrossFont Details )
- ↑ Mark Douma: dfontifier ( dfintifier Overview ( Memento from June 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))