Re: Webdings et.al. ?
Re: Webdings et.al. ?
- Subject: Re: Webdings et.al. ?
- From: Robert Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:33:56 -0400
Hello,
I thought Cocoa was all based on unicode encoding ie. 16 bit chars.
So if I create an NSString using @"G" isn't it converted into a unicode
string. So what's the trick then ?
On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 03:32 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
That is because you have to use a different encoding rather than
ASCI or UTF-8 to get webdings from regular characters.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski
On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 03:18 , Julian Barkway wrote:
On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 08:51 pm, Robert Miller wrote:
Am I missing something ? I have an NSTextView that I want to
display certain character(s) with using the Webdings font. So I get
the font using [NSFont fontWithName:@"Webdings" size:0], this returns
and instance of the Webdings font. If I use the debugger to look at
the NSFont its description says that it is 'CGS Webdings' ... I set
the text of my NSTextView to be some character say 'G' using
setString:@"G" , which is a solid box in Webdings if I'm not
mistaken, then I set the font of the NSTextView the Webdings NSFont
instance for the entire range in this case a single character using
setFont:theFont range:theRange, yet when the text is displayed it is
the 'G' character and not a Webdings symbol ? what could be going
wrong ? Is there a trick to using non standard fonts ?
I recently had exactly this problem but when I finally got it to work
(by using a slightly different version of the Dingbats font I had
lying around) my alpha testers complained they could only see the
underlying alphabetic character. In the end, I gave up and designed
myself a very simple custom image which I then 'aquafied' using Ben
Haller's excellent AquaTint app. Needless to say, this looks very much
better than the Dingbat I originally used....
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