Unicode control pictures on OS X?
Dar Scott
dsc at swcp.com
Fri Dec 24 01:12:08 EST 2004
On Dec 23, 2004, at 9:05 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>> I thought I had used Unicode control pictures (U+2400 up) on OS X,
>> but now they don't work. All I get is a box with ctl in it. Was
>> there a change in Revolution, fonts, me or OS X that changed this? I
>> get this with every font!
>
> I'm using OS X 10.3.7 and Revolution 2.5. A control picture is an
> image representing a control character such as the ASCII control
> characters. For example, numToChar(0x240A) is normally an staggered
> LF.
I don't think this is a Revolution problem. I used both Font Checker
and Font Explorer and didn't find any fonts with control pictures. So
either I'm losing my marbles or something happened when I upgraded from
10.2 to 10.3. I remember the glyphs were very ugly, so maybe they were
yanked from the font I was using.
Dar
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