Interviewed by CNN on 21/03/2012 02:18, Mike C told the world: > Is there a way to Use Wingdings in SM mail?
I don't think so. Not easily, anyway. The problem with wingdings/webdings and other dingbat fonts is that they aren't Unicode fonts, so there's no way to provide a "fallback" glyph if the recipient happens to not have that particular font: the recipient has to have a compatible font, that is, one with the the glyphs in the exact same order, AND to be configured to map the fonts correctly if they don't have the exact same name. Since e-mail (and Webmaking, for that matter) is a medium where you have *no* control over the environment where it will be read, this is discouraged -- because it's a recipe for broken pages. Say you pick a nice broad arrow pointing right in Wingdings3; this is character 0xE2. Unless the recipient has Wingdings 3, he won't be able to see the arrow. Even having a large Unicode font, like Arial Sans Unicode (which, I'm pretty sure, does have glyphs for right-pointing arrows), won't be any help, because 0xE2 in any Unicode font points to the character "รข". Even having a different Wingding font won't help, because, for instance, in WingDings2 this code points to an asterisk. Yes, Windows and Macs usually do have this font installed. So what? This is no longer a Windows-only world. For instance, AFAIK Android phones and tablets don't come with a Wingdings-compatible font. Same, I think, for Blackberries. (I have seen some info that IOS devices do have Wingdings, but apparently it's called "Wingdings-regular" there.) In the Linux world, you can't be certain that there will be a compatible font installed. And so on. Is it POSSIBLE? Well, maybe. Seamonkey Mail and Composer won't even list fonts with weird glyph mappings, such as Wingdings. But there might be some way to work around it. I just don't think it's worth the trouble. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Etch-a-Sketch. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.8 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
