OS 10.5 character issue
Martin Baxter
mb.userev at harbourhosting.co.uk
Tue Nov 4 04:08:17 EST 2008
Dan Friedman wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Thanks for the response. Here's what I did (on 10.5):
>
> repeat with i = 1 to 256
> put i &tab& numToChar(i) into line i of tempData
> end repeat
> put tempData into field 1 --set to my custom font
>
> The check came on line 195
> The ellipse came on line 201
>
> I then ran the SAME routine on a 10.4 Mac:
>
> The check came on line 201 AND 195! The ellipsis character was not listed
> at all. Which it shouldn't be - it's where our check is.
Dan,
In the Mac Roman character set, 201 is defined as ellipsis, 195 is the
square root symbol.
It sounds like the OS is substituting a glyph from a system font,
perhaps because it objects to some aspect of your custom font?
Does this happen in other applications as well?
Martin Baxter
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