Line breaks causing non-rendering character on Android Nexus 1 about source-sans HOT 11 CLOSED

That's a notdef (not defined) glyph. It appears when a font is asked for a character that it doesn't contain. Example: Source Sans does not support Hebrew, so if you ask for the character א (U+05D0) to be rendered with the font, you'll get a notdef glyph.

Can you determine which characters those notdef glyphs are suppose to represent?

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As far as I can tell it happens on line breaks, but not all of them. We are using ECO templates compiled to JST, and will investigate further to see if the generated javascript is the culprit for this notdef.

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can you substitute another font and post another image, that might help us in troubleshooting a bit. thanks.

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I'll try that and a few more things. Stay tuned.

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It’s uniFEFF (zero width non breaking space) that’s missing. Android uses it a lot in a very inconsistent way which causes problems because there are many fonts in the wild that don’t contain that character.
cf. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1597630 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16895848&postcount=269

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How soon do you need a fix?

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Great. @pauldhunt Within the next few weeks would be ideal.

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okay, we can definitely do this. before we dive in, do you have any other changes that need to be made at the same time? and can you confirm that the character listed above is, in fact, the correct character? Thanks.

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There is nothing else I require. I did a little googling and I do see others with similar problems with the lack of the U+FEFF character. However, I am no expert. Cheers.

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This can be fixed in SCP quite easily; but ultimately this problem should be fixed in Android.
Virtually no font contains this “character”; which means that this clearly is a OS bug.

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Version 1.040 has just been released and the fonts now have the U+FEFF character.

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