Help with unicode and question marks

[Wei JIANG [PT-CN]]

Hello Alison and Stuart,

Myriad Pro IS a Unicode font. The thing is, that specific character, and
many other characters in the same group, are not included in this font.
You can verify this in Character Map.

So, Unicode is a way to encode the characters in a font, but that font
may not include all characters. Even if in the so-called "catch-all" font
Arial Unicode MS, some characters are missing!

Kindest,
Wei Jiang
English<>Chinese Translator and Multilingual DTPer based in Beijing, China


On 9/18/2012 6:24 AM, 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
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> Alison Craig
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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
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> Subject: Help with unicode and question marks
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> 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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