Creator and Unicode

[Steve Mills]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 07:24:47, Mehlhorn, Jeff wrote:

> I used the OS X Character Palette and PopChar at the same time. And  
> yes, I
> am getting the same glyphs from both. But let me be more specific. I  
> am want
> to access all the characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.  
> And in
> Creator, using the OSX Character Palette and PopCHar, I cannot  
> access these
> characters. All I get is the famous rectangular box. But if I use an  
> app
> like pages Apple's Text Edit, there is no problem at all. I can  
> access all
> the characters, even the Blue ones in PopChar Pro! And I can access  
> all the
> funky characters from the Character Palette too! I guess I am  
> wondering why
> Creator is giving me the rectangular box and no characters.

Creator doesn't support Asian fonts. According to the PopChar docs,  
glyphs that appear in blue are not actually available in the current  
font:

"characters that are substituted from a different font appear in blue"

What PopChar sends us is rtf data that says to use the font you have  
selected in PopChar's popup (which would be the same font in use in  
Creator if certain conditions are met), and the Unicode character sent  
is indeed that Unicode character. The problem is that the font does  
not contain a glyph for that character, so you get the box.

Bottom line; you can't use any of the blue characters with Creator.  
You need a Roman font that contains the glyphs you want to use.

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