What has changed in MacOS 10.12 in handling code pages?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/17/17 11:24 PM, Kay C Lan via use-livecode wrote:
> In LC 6.6.5 on OS X 10.11.6 I created a new stack, dragged a field
> onto it (i.e. no font specified for the field) and then in the msg
> box:
>
> put the effective textFont of field 1
> --the result is 'Lucidia Grande'
>
> In LC 9.0.0 dp4 on the same machine if I do the same thing the result
> is '(Text)'
>
> If I go into the LC 9 Object Inspector to set the Font of the newly
> created field there are a bunch of entries at the top, which you don't
> get in 6.6.5, like:
> (Default)
> (System)
> (Text)
> (Styled Text)

These are special font names introduced recently, explained in the 
dictionary under "fontnames". Basically these assignments use the 
system-compatible font for the designated category.

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