On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell <d...@ewellic.org> wrote: > >> Incidentally, many of the new symbols in Unicode 6 are available in >> the Symbola font from George Douros, and they can be seen in Firefox: >> http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ > > 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. > > I don't know yet whether the problem was with the font or BabelPad (or > something else), but I hadn't seen a BSOD on that machine for six months > or more. Given the stability of BabelPad, even beta copies, I'm > inclined to suspect the font.
Unfortunately this is a known issue with BabelPad and BabelMap, and not the fault of Symbola. The blue screen crash occurs somewhere within a call to ExtTextOutW() when sandwiched between BeginPath() and EndPath(), when an attempt is made to render one of the mega-complex glyphs in Symbola (e.g. the glyph for U+1F5FD STATUE OF LIBERTY ... which in fact is not the Statue of Liberty, which is actually at U+FFFED). This is the reason why the Unicode 6.0 betas of BabelMap/BabelPad have been taken off line, and their release delayed for a few days whilst I implement an alternate strategy. My apologies to any users who encounter this issue. Andrew
