What font does the macOS Character Viewer use? By this I mean the Character Viewer which you access with control-command-space.
(This is useful to get characters which look exactly like the characters shown there.)
What font does the macOS Character Viewer use
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OS X normally will not display a character in the Private Use Area unless you manually set the font in the app. I understand this is intentional, since every font could have a different glyph at the same PUA code point, and it only makes sense to display something when the user specifies the font.
I think it should also work when the right font is selected via CSS or other markup in a document being read.
Some earlier versions of OS X did not have this "feature" and did display PUA stuff. I don't know how they chose which font to use when more than one had something at the code point selected.
Have a look at Apple Symbols. Glyph 1009 in that one has similar corners.
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Best Answer
For any character you can see how different fonts display it in the Font Variation pane on the right side of the Character Viewer, and choose whatever seems closest.