On 17/09/2012 8:01 PM, Wei JIANG [PT-CN] wrote:
Hello Alison and Stuart,
Myriad Pro IS a Unicode font. The thing is, that specific character, and
many other characters in the same group, are not included in this font.
You can verify this in Character Map.
So, Unicode is a way to encode the characters in a font, but that font
may not include all characters. Even if in the so-called "catch-all" font
Arial Unicode MS, some characters are missing!
Kindest,
Wei Jiang
English<>Chinese Translator and Multilingual DTPer based in Beijing, China
Thanks Wei Jiang,
But Christoph Korsmeier has the right answer. In Windows 7, I can
"verify" in Character Map that Myriad Pro definitely has the glyph; it
appears in a group of glyphs that is also peppered with boxed-X's
indicating missing glyphs, leading one with "certainty" to the
conclusion that Myriad Pro includes the checkmark. It's a lie.
In Windows XP, the Character Map shows the truth: the entire part of the
unicode range that Win7 claims to include that glyph (and a whole bunch
of other dingbat-style glyphs) is nothing but boxed-X's. Evidently Win7
and Microsoft products like Word do a behind-the-scenes font
substitution, which FM does not recognize. (According to forums,
neither does Photoshop, so perhaps it's Adobe-wide.)
I know how to work around this issue, but I've wasted a lot of time
uncovering Microsoft's malfeasance; I'm extremely annoyed!
Thanks to all,
--
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3
Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325
http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
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