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: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:53:38 -0500
Because if people had to memorize a bunch of codes to type certain
characters, it would be no better than Windows where you have to
memorize ALT-codes to get lots of special characters. Don't know if
you've ever taken any math or science courses in school, but there are
many times where you need to use Greek letters and the like, and it's
much easier to remember that a is alpha, b is beta, etc. in the symbol
font then to memorize a different unicode number for each letter! This
is a serious issue, and all I can say is thank God that Word and Excel
are written in Carbon, because otherwise, Mac OS X would surely turn off
a whole new generation of potential users who would use it once, try to
switch to Symbol or Wingdings or whatever font, have it switch right
back to whatever it was with no warning or explanation, and just see
this as really messed up behavior, there not being any indication that
they need to change keyboard layouts or any way to discover that this is
necessary apart from having read this mailing list. These people would
have to go find a Windows machine to get some work done. Really bad PR
for Apple.
I sincerely hope that the person who claimed Apple was going to fix this
issue in a future release was correct.
Charles
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 03:53 AM, 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.
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Ondra Cada
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