Re: Symbol font

FROM : Mike Ferris
DATE : Thu Jan 02 17:45:10 2003

The Cocoa text system's "font fixing" will look for a font that has
visual properties similar to the font assigned to a character if it has
to find a different font.  It takes into account such things as weight,
italics, serif/sans-serif, etc...  Obviously this is a slightly fuzzy
process.  So if you have 5 fonts with the Kappa character, you should
get the one that is closest in appearance to the font that was assigned
to the character.

Mike


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Chris Ridd <<email_removed>>
> Date: Wed Jan 1, 2003  12:49:13 AM US/Pacific
> To: Andreas Mayer <<email_removed>>, <<email_removed>>
> Subject: Re: Symbol font
>
> On 31/12/02 11:41 pm, Andreas Mayer <<email_removed>> wrote:

>> Am Dienstag, 31.12.02 um 21:57 Uhr schrieb Charles Brokaw:
>>

>>> What do I need to do to draw a character with Symbol font ?

>>
>> You need to use the right character.
>>
>> "Greek Small Letter Kappa" is 0x03BA
>>
>> Use the Character Palette or any Unicode table to find the codes you
>> need.

>
> This is because under the hood, OS X switches fonts for you when it
> needs to
> display a Unicode character that doesn't exist in the current font. So
> you
> just use Unicode everywhere and let the OS worry about it for you :-)
>
> What would happen however if you had multiple fonts that supplied Greek
> Small Letter Kappas (or whatever)? Which font would the OS choose?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
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