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Re: Odd Text Editor Behavior
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Re: Odd Text Editor Behavior


  • Subject: Re: Odd Text Editor Behavior
  • From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:30:54 -0700


On Aug 17, 2005, at 7:22 AM, Nick Nallick wrote:

Why is it impossible to enter the text "pixel/2" in the Xcode editor? Whenever I type a lower case L followed by a forward slash the two are converted into a lower case L with a horizontal bar through it. I suspect this is some kind of diacritical or unicode thing because the same thing happens in TextEdit in plain text mode (but not in rich text).

You have an ancient cut of Monaco in your Fonts folder. This font has the twiddly bits turned on to apply automatic ligatures to certain character combinations (l/ and o/, for instance) as well as to automatically curl your single and double quotes. Very strange decisions for a monospace font, if you ask me, but there it is.


Remove the offending Monaco using FontBook and restart Xcode and you should be OK.

Note your files are not corrupted. This is purely glyph-drawing behavior on the part of the text system, taking guidance from the font. You can compile your code fine, it just displays oddly.

(Note: You are only the third person to mention this, ever.)

Chris

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