Tips and resources available for creating glyphs on your Using webfont-based glyphs in your Joomla website
Not all browsers support all webfont formats Not all browsers support Here we see some of the characters available in Glyphicons Halflings. That’s where downloadable webfonts come into play. If you want to use other fonts-instead of “safe” font ones-you are going to need something else. You are restricted when you use only the so-called “safe” fonts. 
The CSS font-family rule offers a fallback capability if your users do not have the same fonts that you used when you designed your site, but their experience may be different and may suffer because of it.
Your users may not necessarily have all fonts referenced on your site. But, no matter how you look at it, an “envelope” (Unicode character 2709) still looks the same. Here’s another way of achieving the same result that we saw on the previous slide. 
With XML and HTML5, UTF-8 finally arrived, and solved a lot of character encoding problems. Later, from HTML 2.0 to HTML 4.01, ISO-8859-1 was considered the standard. The character encoding for the early web was ASCII. For HTML5, the default character encoding is UTF-8.
To display an HTML page correctly, the browser must know what character set (character encoding) to use. Not all browsers support all image formats. Glyphs are like icons … The use of images as icons originated with the implementation of the HTML tag The use of glyphs, on the other hand, started off with the use of the HTML tag. The dictionary definition of a glyph is “a pictograph or hieroglyph” … … however, as you can see, a glyph has a slightly different meaning when related to typography.
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