Help with unicode and question marks

[Alison Craig]

Stuart:

I noodled around a bit on the net and Myriad Pro doesn't actually seem to be a Unicode font. So then I went to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_fonts#List_of_Unicode_fonts). Myriad Pro is not included on their list of Unicode fonts. That isn't necessarily definitive, but it certainly meshes with the behavior you're seeing.

I also tried to add a checkmark to one of my own documents that uses Myriad Pro and I got precisely the behavior you described. So I'm thinking you need to use another font, at least for special characters (who knew a checkmark was "special"?)

Alison


Alison Craig 
Technical Documentation Lead

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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 2:32 PM
To: Framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Help with unicode and question marks

FM 10.0.2.419, Win7pro 64-bit

I am trying to enter a checkmark glyph in a .fm document.  The paragraph is formatted to use Myriad Pro, which is a unicode font.  No matter how I try to insert the glyph (Hex Input, Character Palette, copy and paste special as unicode from Word), FM displays only a question mark.

The character appears in the character palette (with Myriad Pro chosen as the font) at position x2713 or decimal 10003.  Typing Alt+10003 works in Word (with Myriad Pro chosen), but doing so fails in FM.  The Hex Input tool correctly displays the character in its ugly little black box; the Character Palette correctly displays the character in its really ugly black box.  But all I get is question marks in my document.

What am I missing?

thanks,

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Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3
Toronto, ON, Canada  M1W 3K5
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