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Richmond. Bug report 21055 -- Quite interesting. Especially that decimal worked. On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 1:56 AM, Richmond Mathewson < richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10/3/2018 1:32 am, Brian Milby wrote: > > Can you select the character and manually change the font and have it > change? Wondering if the font in that field somehow was off. > > > Dunno: it certainly makes me feel "off". > > Well, for starters, I set the font of the field to Devawriter.ttf via the > Properties palette . . . > > Selecting the text in the fld and changing the font makes no difference at > all (LC 8.1.8). > > What IS odd, is that IFF one sets the numToCodePoint(0x9AD) [for instance] > the correct glyph > is displayed in both the field and the Message box. > > This would suggest (?) that the way Unicode 'stuff' is implemented in the > Message box is somehow > different from the way it is implemented in fields . . . > > This is a "bother". > > For those of you who care about this sort of thing Unicode UA8FD is a > glyph inwith the "Devanagari Extended" set > that was implemented a while back. > > As "All of this" is happening on a Macintosh I shall wander over to a > Linux machine this afternoon > and see 'what gives': although, whatever gives, that's a pox for > cross-platform understanding. > > Richmond. > > > Brian > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM Richmond Mathewson < > richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am using my Devawriter.ttf font which has a Jain Om at the Unicode 10.0 >> standardised address for that glyph. >> >> >> Richmond. >> >> On 9/3/2018 10:36 pm, Brian Milby wrote: >> >> Is it a font issue? I get an empty box on Win10 and a box with a ? inside >> on my Mac. Had to go to fileformat.info to see what it should look like. >> >> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode