Re: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-24 Thread Andrew West 
On 24 October 2010 13:56, Andrew West  wrote:
>
> However, further testing has indicated that standard Windows
> applications such as Notepad may blue screen crash on some systems
> when attempting to render U+1F5FD (Statue of Liberty, but replaced by
> a glyph for the Angel of Death in Symbola) with Symbola version 6.00
> at high point sizes (pasting 12 x U+1F5FD into Notepad with font set
> to Symbola 72pts reliably crashes my Windows XP machine, but not my
> Vista machine). So I advise people to use the Symbola font with
> caution.

Symbola has now been updated to version 6.01 which replaces the
problematic glyphs at U+1F5FB through U+1F5FF with the correct glyphs,
and now seems to be safe to use.

Andrew

RE: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-24 Thread Peter Constable 
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf 
Of Andrew West

> However, further testing has indicated that standard Windows applications 
> such as Notepad may blue screen crash on some systems when attempting 
> to render U+1F5FD (Statue of Liberty, but replaced by a glyph for the Angel 
> of Death in Symbola) with Symbola version 6.00 at high point sizes (pasting 
> 12 x U+1F5FD into Notepad with font set to Symbola 72pts reliably crashes 
> my Windows XP machine, but not my Vista machine). So I advise people to 
> use the Symbola font with caution.

And I'd advise people to upgrade from Windows XP.



Peter

Re: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-24 Thread Andrew West 
On 13 October 2010 21:41, Andrew West  wrote:
> On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell  wrote:
>>
>> At the risk of spreading unsubstantiated FUD, I experienced system
>> crashes (BSOD) twice in one day while trying to configure the
>> composite-font feature in BabelPad 6.0.0.0 (beta D) to use Symbola 6.00
>> on Windows XP SP3.
>
> Unfortunately this is a known issue with BabelPad and BabelMap, and
> not the fault of Symbola.

This problem has been fixed in the new Unicode 6.0 versions of
BabelMap and BabelPad that I finally released today.



However, further testing has indicated that standard Windows
applications such as Notepad may blue screen crash on some systems
when attempting to render U+1F5FD (Statue of Liberty, but replaced by
a glyph for the Angel of Death in Symbola) with Symbola version 6.00
at high point sizes (pasting 12 x U+1F5FD into Notepad with font set
to Symbola 72pts reliably crashes my Windows XP machine, but not my
Vista machine). So I advise people to use the Symbola font with
caution.

Andrew