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Hi @phanpy just informally noting a font issue. Sorry if I'm ignoring a more formal issue tracker. Maybe a font issue. Or a conversion issue. Or a not unicode issue. Look at stars: mastodon.social/@Edent/1122637

Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)Mastodon

@eastmad your OS's system font doesn't seem to support that character. I can't view it too on macOS Sonoma.

@phanpy I can see the image correctly on the web page linked to, from the same machine and browser (Mac and Chrome).

@eastmad if you're seeing it on the shkspr.mobi site, it uses a custom web font to render the stars.

@phanpy So as phanpy doesn't load the same custom font, this is inevitable?

@eastmad technically yes. This should be the same issue for other clients too.

@phanpy @eastmad Excuse the chipping in but Phanpy on macOS Chrome does render the half-star correctly. Even weirder, if you use Safari's web inspector on the element (under Phanpy), it also shows the half-star correctly. Some weird interaction between Phanpy and Safari seems to cause the missing character?
@eastmad @phanpy This is Sonoma 14.4 (23E214) with Safari 17.4 (19618.1.15.11.12)

@zimpenfish @phanpy I I have an old MacOS (pre Apple Silicon Mac) although the phanpy respondent is also on Sonoma as you can see from the thread.