Why I insist on my pupils writing properly formed English letters.

[Richmond]

It would, indeed seem to be the operating system as everything works 
100% on Linux.

Richmond.


On 14.08.2018 23:51, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> Mocked by an operating system, no less.
>
> If I set the font of my field to ANY font other than the one where a 
> glyph in position hex 978 exists
> then glyph hex 978 is readily supplied; changing over to my own font 
> (where a glyph is in place)
>  I end up with a square: and this not by LiveCode alone.
>
> On 14/8/2018 9:50 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>> Because some people who did not take handwriting very seriously, 
>> called the Marwari, started getting their letter 'D' wrong
>> to the extent that it eventually began to be treated as a different 
>> letter by Indian Colonial Language experts at the end of
>> the 19th century and then got plonked into the Unicode standard in a 
>> different place from the letter it should have been
>> if those slap-dash Marwaris hadn't been a bit uncoordinated with 
>> their pens . . .
>>
>> . . . And now LiveCode 8.1.10 using my Devawriter Pro font which has 
>> the Marwari glyph in its correct place (hex 978, decimal 2424)
>> seems unable to put anything but a wee box into a field set to my 
>> font when I do this:
>>
>> put numToCodePoint(2424) into fld "ff"
>>
>> even while it behaves itself perfectly happily with:
>>
>> put numToCodePoint(2427) into fld "ff"
>>
>> A while back someone was stating something about LiveCode not being 
>> able to cope with post Unicode 10; but as the
>> Marwari 'D' was in place at least as early as Unicode 7 I'm not 
>> convinced about that.
>>
>> All this on Macintosh 10.7.5.
>>
>> In about 10 minutes will transport everything over to Linux and see 
>> what goes on there.
>>
>> Richmond.
>