PDA

View Full Version : strange font bug


chardinej
02-05-2002, 01:13 PM
This is an interesting one. I have noticed a bug with the Arial font in OS X.

I occasionally have to use accented characters and noticed that opt-e e was not producing an acute accent over the e in Arial. In other fonts it works fine. I also noticed that in Arial, if I type opt-e e then opt-e e again, the first e is not accented but the second one is! If you type opt-e e in Times font, you get an accented e and if you change the font of the accented character to Arial the accent remains! If you do the reverse the accent does not show up in the Times font.

Can anyone else reproduce this and/or does anyone know what might be happening.

xchanyazy
02-05-2002, 01:52 PM
FWIW, I can reproduce it just fine. I also checked and it doesn't happen in any other app that I use to type (AppleWorks, BBEdit, TextEdit). Don't know the cause, though.

chardinej
02-05-2002, 05:16 PM
It's possible the problem may only occur in Carbonised apps. It does not appear to happen in TextEdit, which I think is full Cocoa. I'll check further.