Creator and Unicode

[Mehlhorn, Jeff]

Thanks Steve, I will not choose any PopChar Blue characters, but I do notice
that when I choose a Blue character in Text Edit, it not only works but also
tells me what character was subsituted. So your right, a character in blue
means its coming from a different font. But it usually tells me its coming
from one of Apple's system fonts which is probably not a good idea to use
when it comes time to outputting jobs to high end imagesetters.

On 8/14/08 10:35 AM, "Steve Mills" <smills at multi-ad.com> wrote:

> 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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