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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label misschar</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Where have my characters gone?</h3>
-<p/>You&#8217;ve typed some apparently reasonable text and processed it, but the
-result contains no sign of some of the characters you typed. A likely
-reason is that the font you selected just doesn&#8217;t have a
-representation for the character in question.
-<p/>For example, if I type &#8220;that will be &#163;44.00&#8221; into an ordinary
-(La)TeX document, or if I select the font <code>rsfs10</code> (which contains
-uppercase letters only) and type pretty much anything, the &#163;
-sign, or any lowercase letters or digits will not appear in the
-output. There&#8217;s no actual error message, either: you have to read the
-log file, where you&#8217;ll find cryptic little messages like
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-Missing character: There is no ^^a3 in font cmr10!
-Missing character: There is no 3 in font rsfs10!
-</pre>
-
-</blockquote><p>
-(the former demonstrating my TeX&#8217;s unwillingness to deal in characters
-which have the eighth bit set, while the <code>rsfs10</code> example shows that
-TeX will log the actual character in error, if it thinks it&#8217;s
-possible).
-<p/>Somewhat more understandable are the diagnostics you may get from
-<i>dvips</i> when using the OT1 and T1 versions of
-fonts that were supplied in Adobe standard encoding:
-<blockquote>
-<pre>
-dvips: Warning: missing glyph `Delta'
-</pre>
-</blockquote><p>
-The process that generates the metrics for using the fonts generates
-an instruction to <i>dvips</i> to produce these diagnostics, so
-that their non-appearance in the printed output is less surprising
-than it might be. Quite a few glyphs provided in Knuth&#8217;s text
-encodings and in the Cork encoding are not available in the Adobe
-fonts. In these cases, there <em>is</em> a typeset sign of the
-character: <i>dvips</i> produces a black rectangle of whatever
-size the concocted font file has specified.
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=misschar">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=misschar</a>
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