Unicode issues ad infinitum

rand valentine jrvalent at wisc.edu
Mon Sep 15 17:42:36 EDT 2008


 Hello, fellow Revolution users. I have a quick question, though I really
doubt there's any useful answer. I have begun using a Unicode font in a
dictionary I've made of a North American aboriginal language, Ojibwe. This
language uses Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics. I am using StackRunner to
distribute beta copies of the dictionary to testers, some of whom use Macs
and some Windows (both XP and Vista). If I set a field to the Unicode
syllabics font on my Mac, everything works fine, I get the syllabics
rendering properly. I also find that I do not have problems with versions of
XP I'm running in VMware Fusion on my Macs. But several Windows XP users
report to me that they just get "square boxes" instead of syllabics. So my
guess is that Windows Revolution can't detect a font as a Unicode font if it
has Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (but not say, Chinese or Japanese), so it
substitutes another Unicode font, which has no syllabics. Could this be the
problem? And is anyone aware of any way around this? All I want is for the
field to respect the font that its been assigned, instead of over-riding
with the wrong Unicode font. Am I missing something? Thanks.

rand valentine





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