Dan Friedman wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the response.  Here's what I did (on 10.5):
> 
> repeat with i = 1 to 256
>   put i &tab& numToChar(i) into line i of tempData
> end repeat
> put tempData into field 1 --set to my custom font
> 
> The check came on line 195
> The ellipse came on line 201
> 
> I then ran the SAME routine on a 10.4 Mac:
> 
> The check came on line 201 AND 195!  The ellipsis character was not listed
> at all.  Which it shouldn't be - it's where our check is.

Dan,

In the Mac Roman character set, 201 is defined as ellipsis, 195 is the
square root symbol.

It sounds like the OS is substituting a glyph from a system font,
perhaps because it objects to some aspect of your custom font?

Does this happen in other applications as well?

Martin Baxter

-- 
I am Not a Number, I am a free NaN
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