Relates to: MC-236295 MC-263121 MC-276750 MC-276751
The bug
If no active resource pack defines a texture for a given character, it will correctly render as a rectangle, however no error will be reported in the console. This is unlike what happens for missing textures.
Notably, the game did report these errors in 1.13 pre-releases 6 and 7, but this functionality appears to have broken in pre-release 8 onwards.
How to reproduce
Paste this character into chat:
Observe the log output
Expected results
Couldn't find glyph for character (\uf8ff)
Actual results
No error is produced at all.
How to fix
Make this error show up again.
Can confirm.