Re: how do you enter text in Symbol?
Re: how do you enter text in Symbol?
- Subject: Re: how do you enter text in Symbol?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:14:12 -0700
On Wed, 15 May 2002 08:19:11 -0400, "Simson Garfinkel" <email@hidden> said:
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I have an NSTextView and a user who wishes to be able to enter information
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using the Symbol font. When the Symbol font is selected with the font panel,
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and the user starts typing, the font reverts back to a roman font.
Just to clarify some of the other answers you got: This has nothing to do
with your app; it's how OS X works. Try it in TextEdit, you'll see the same
thing. OS X is Unicode, so Symbol is not really a font, it's merely a
certain set of Unicode characters. No matter what font you choose, if you
input ("type") one of those characters, ATSUI will draw upon any font that
has the character. One way to type a Symbol character easily is to use the
Symbol keyboard map, which you can choose in the Keyboards menu. There is
thus actually no point for the user *ever* to choose the Symbol *font*.
These matters are clarified, on an elementary level (which sounds like
where you are with this), by my recent TidBITS article on the state of
Unicode in OS X:
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbser=1217
You would think that (for the benefit of existing Mac users) Apple would
have hooked the Symbol font to the Symbol keyboard map, so that choosing
the one would also choose the other; but they have not done so - there is a
feature called Keyboard Synchronization, and you can turn it on (in the
International prefs pane), but this has no effect.
m.
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