# ಠ\_ಠ

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_/573623>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 5, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_/573623 "2011-03-05T22:35:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 3

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**Author:** ![Lestrade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Lestrade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lestrade)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_/573623/41 "2011-03-09T00:56:38Z")

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> [@Zany\_Zeolite\_Zipper](#):
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> Can doperfags triforce?

This are not 4chan, kthxbye.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_/573623/42 "2011-03-09T14:17:57Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> I appreciate the help. I’ve found that upgrading my PowerBook has been pretty much trouble-free, so it’s odd that such a simple thing as adding a font would cause problems.

It must be a problem with the font file. I downloaded the one from my link in post 34 and it has a different creation date and is much smaller (3.1 MB) than the Code2000 font file I downloaded a few years ago (8.3 MB). You could try the Kannada font at this page: [http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/kannada/](http://web.nickshanks.com/fonts/kannada/)

Or you could ask Todderbob what font he has that shows that character.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_/573623/43 "2011-03-09T14:45:44Z")

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I looked on my new MacBook that has 10.6.6 on it, and it also doesn’t show the “reddit eyes”. Instead it shows, in the Safari title bar for the page, the glyph that the MacOS uses for unknown characters. You might think you’re seeing the reddit eyes, because if there is a missing font but the character that’s missing is in a certain Unicode range then the glyph it displays tells you what character range the missing character is in. In other words, the glyph that shows could look kind of like like eyes in square-framed glasses when you view the glyph at a small size. It’s all explained here  
[http://www.imacusers.com/adding-kannada-support-to-mac-os-x/](http://www.imacusers.com/adding-kannada-support-to-mac-os-x/)

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_/573623/44 "2011-03-09T14:57:14Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Not working in Safari.
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> Not working in Firefox.
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> Not working in Opera.

That’s cuz Microsoft is the WINNING!

I approve of the eyeses.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/_/573623/45 "2011-03-10T18:03:25Z")

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> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#):
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> That’s what I saw in firefox on my Mac. Using tapatalk on my phone, I saw the eyes.

I’m not sure what Phone you are using, but interestingly enough, I’m using my iPod touch with iOS 4.2.1, and with both Tapatalk and Safari I ses the Kannada characters. It seems like iOS has a font with the Kannada script included with the OS even though Mac OS X doesn’t.

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