Hello list, Last few days I was trying to understand how symbol fonts (wingdings, webdings X, etc) should be properly handled with cocoa text system. As a good example could be Adobe Photoshop and Apple Pages. Both behaves in the same way and I want to achieve the same result. For example if I choose Wingdings font and type "PO", I see two flag symbols. If I change font to any other (Arial, Times, Helvetica etc.) I see characters I have entered by keyboard layout (PO). Also, If I copy text while Wingdings font is selected, and paste it to another app, I am getting "PO". Searching through the list gave me few ideas. But none of them I found very useful. One of them is to map characters to different codes (by adding 0x00F000). This works, but I doubt this is correct way, because that brakes copy/paste mechanism and when converting back to Arial/Times.. symbols needs to be remapped again. Unless this could be done in auto way. I think only glyphs should be used from font and mapping should be done by text system. The problem is - I have no idea how to do that.
Any help is appreciate. P.S. default behavior is like TextEdit: say we have "PO" and after choosing Wingdings font is changed to default Lucida Grande. Best Regards, Rimas M. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
