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- [Instructor] Another topic that is related to Unicode are fonts. As a developer, you probably won't be writing fonts, but sometimes when the user complains that they can't see something, you can understand that the issue is the underlying Unicode. So you have the letter A, the capital letter A, and I see the same capital letter, but it looks different, right? And they're using different font for each of one of them. When we have a font, we call the shape of a specific character in that font a glyph, and a font is basically a set of glyphs. And you can look at Google Font's knowledge base, and they have good explanation about a glyph, which is a single presentation of a character. Depending on the font, you will see different glyphs for the same character, but let's take, for example, the Hebrew letter alef, which stands for the cardinality of infinity in mathematics. If I'm going to the Roboto font, and I'm going to paste it here to see how it looks on Roboto, you see, it doesn't…

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