Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- Subject: Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 19:12:35 +0200
On Donnerstag, Juni 27, 2002, at 11:07 , Ondra Cada wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:41 , Chaz wrote:
It seems to me Mac OS X has some problem with these fonts for some
reason.
It seems to me you have some problem with understanding that a is *NOT*
the same character as check mark, regardless font selected. Why should
it
be so, on earth?!? If you wanted checkmark, so enter a checkmark, not
'a' -- dunno which Unicode character it is, but you can find it in
www.unicode.org.
1. Unicode characters - like checkmarks or delta
1a. If they are on some Apple supplied keyboard, e.g. Symbol - just
switch keyboards and type it.
1b. If not on some supplied keyboard - then modify or create your own
keyboard. But how? Some one said that Apple has promised to make this
possible "in some later release". Maybe in OS 14.5 or what?
1c. What to do with Unicode characters like 0xe04 (some Thai letter).
These (and many other Unicode characters) cannot be displayed - you just
get a placeholder. But the documentations says
(file:///Developer/Documentation/Essentials/SystemOverview/FileSystem/iFile_Encodings_and_Fonts.
html): "For example, Lucida, the system font, supports extended Latin,
Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Thai."
So - how to display Thai characters?
2. The original poster had a font with funny characters (like bicycles),
which are probably not in Unicode. How to create a text which shows
these non-Unicode symbols using this font?
So, maybe OS X has some problems with fonts. But sure I have lots of
problems with fonts in OS X
Gerriet.
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