Help with unicode and question marks

[Stuart Rogers]

On 17/09/2012 6:24 PM, Alison Craig wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for looking, Alison, but Myriad Pro is definitely Unicode -- it's 
an OpenType font (purchased from Adobe).  Adobe says:

"The OpenType format offers outstanding benefits to users: 
cross-platform font file format, Unicode encoding, rich linguistic 
support with the capacity to support over 65,000 glyphs..."

And the checkmark glyph certainly exists in the font; it appears in the 
FM character and hex utilities, it works fine in Word, it appears in the 
Windows Charater Map in the Unicode subrange "Symbols & Dingbats".

Seems the problem lies with FM; alas, I may have to take Robert's advice 
and call Adobe Support <cringe>.

Best regards,

Stuart


>
>
> -----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,
>
> -- Stuart Rogers


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