Charachter suddenly replaced in html/chm output

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August 18, 2020
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I'm practicing with CourierNew box drawings characters.

Before, looking just fine:

Then I replaced the XYZ with new "light horizontal" characters. (copy and paste from same line.) The html5 (or chm) output suddenly has replaced the "down and horizontal" character with something unknown - even though I didn't touch any of the characters in that area.

I can't understand why this happens, and how to avoid it.

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Bob_Niland

Community Expert

That glyph almost certainly is a "replacement" character, meaning that the font at the final client doesn't populate that code point in Unicode.

Unless you can control this, for all clients (browsers, help engines) on all platforms, it's going to remain a risk, and why users here such as myself have suggested converting the art to vectors (SVG), which today has more support than user clients do for way too much of Unicode.