text encoding gotcha?

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Mon Jan 12 21:01:00 EST 2004


On 1/12/04 4:25 PM, "Alex Rice" <alex at mindlube.com> wrote:

> Suddenly when I do a Win32 standalone build, when I run it on windows,
> some fields are all garbled looking. Every other character is a box-
> signifying maybe this is using a wide character encoding. This is
> bizarre- I'm not using Unicode at all. What the heck could be going on?

Sounds like you have a font applied to your fields (or stack) that isn't
present on the system.  Usually you see this with non-Roman fonts.  Check
the textFont of your fields, card and stack just to be sure.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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