I'm using the font Apple SD Gothic Neo. The letters print fine except when I have one with an accent mark, like ú:
This is not a custom font, and it happens on all font weights. If it makes a difference, I'm pulling the string from Firebase.
Why is this happening and what can I do?
Use a different font.
When a font lacks a glyph, that glyph is substituted from another font, resulting in a typographical mismatch. That’s what’s happening here. You are using a font that is very Unicode-incomplete for Latin alphabet characters. It is intended for Korean! Use a more appropriate font.
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Windows has font substitution logic - if you try to render a character which isn't in the currently selected font, Windows would quietly pull a glyph from another font where a glyph
for that character is present.
Imagine the current font is, for example, a serif one. When picking the source for substitution, will Windows prefer serif fonts to sans-serif ones and vice versa?
As far as I know Windows uses the PANOSE values of a font to find a suitable replacement. Those values categorise the font into descriptive values, and there are in fact multiple values to describe the serif style.
The problem is, that only font with PANOSE values can be replaced by fonts with PANOSE values.
So if the font you’re using doesn’t have PANOSE values, Windows can’t find a replacement. Also, if it does and there are no fonts with fitting PANOSE values in your collection, you will get bad substitutions.
However, the PANOSE system was established for font replacement for PostScript printers.
I’m not sure how other people do it but I don’t provide all the information to the PANOSE values in fonts I produce (unless its explicitly asked). I stick to familytype, weight and letterform (though I use this only to decide between upright or italic).
I'm trying to figure out a way to render certain unicode characters as a custom character instead of how they are supposed to appear.
For example, I would like the character U+0E4A to render as something else rather than how it currently appears in Windows.
I tried to create a quick custom font and to replace those glyphs but it only seems to work in some programs. My font will work correctly in LibreOffice Writer but it won't display properly in WordPad. Replacing regular letters works fine, but for other unicode characters they seem to revert back to a default way of rendering and don't display correctly.
Here is a screenshot of my custom font in WordPad, as you can see I made an obvious edit to the B character but I also did the same to the U+0E4A code point and yet it renders as normal.
If there is a special font that already does this that would probably save me the time of making a custom font, but either way I can't figure out how to render these characters as a custom character.
My collegue wants to use my application in Japan. Therefore I tested the application in Windows 7 and changed the Regional Settings for "non-unicode"-Language to Japanese.
Now I have the problem, that some text are shown right with japanese characters. Other text is displayed with wrong characters (not japanese).
I tested also other languages like Chinese or Taiwanese and every text is right. I have only problems with Japanese.
Has anybody an idea what's wrong?
It is most likely because of the "Unihan" principle being applied by Unicode, which forced similarly-looking Japanese and Chinese letters to be encoded into same Unicode character despite their glyph being difference. Many computer systems would use Chinese font instead of Japanese font by default so the Chinese font would be displayed, hence it would result in wrong glyph. Changing the "non-unicode-language" into Japanese would not solve such a problem.
In order to display the proper Japanese glyph, you need to make sure that your application is going to use a Japanese font. Normally if your program is to run in an entirely Japanese environment which include changing the default language and font of the computer into Japanese then Japanese font would be used. On the other hand, you can also specify or embed a Japanese font for your application to make sure it would work as intended.
Windows use uniscribe library to substitute arabic and indi typed characters based on their location. The new glyph is still have the original unicode of the typed character althogh it has its dedicated representation in Unicode
How to get the Unicode of what is actually displayed not what is typed.
There are lots of tools for this like ICU, Charmap and the rest. I myself recommand http://unicode.codeplex.com, it uses Unicode Character Database to represent characters.
Note that unicode is just some information about characters and never spoke about representation. They just suggest to implement a word just like their example. so that to view each code you need Standard Unicode Font like MS Arial Unicode whichis the largest and the best choise in windows platform.
Most of the characters are implemented in this font but for new characters you need an update for it (if there are such an update) or you can use the font which you know that it implemented your desire characters
Your interpretation of what is happening in Uniscribe is not correct.
Once you have glyphs the original information is gone there is no reliable way to go back to Unicode.
Even without going to Arabic, there is no way to distinguish if the glyph for the fi ligature (for example) comes from 'f' and 'i' (U+0066 U+0069) or from 'fi' (U+FB01).
(http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fb01/index.htm)
Also, some of the resulting glyphs do not have a Unicode value associated with them, so there is no "Unicode of what is actually displayed"
I have a NSPopUpButton which contains either English or Japanese Strings read from a plist file according to the System's Language. Now when the Language is English I am able to change the font size by using code such as -
[auxStatePopup setFont: [NSFont fontWithName:#"Helvetica-BoldOblique" size:10.0]];
but Using such technique I am not able to change Japanese font size even if I tried by setting some Japanese font name which I googled and found out.
I want to do that because Japanese characters move slightly up when used. I intend to manipulate that upward movement by decreasing font size.
Thanks for any help..
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any way to move text in NSPopupButton downwards?
My impression is that the two samples are not using the same font. Please try to put a text with characters from both sets and see what happens.
Also try not to customize the font size and even the font face.
I also suspect that the text rendering engine may had overridden some of your changes due to the text length. iOS text rendering may try to change the font size of letter spacing if the text does not fit the control. So make some tests with shorter texts.
BTW, I think that you were mean to say that you want bigger font size for Japanese not smaller. In the screenshots the Japanese text is already too small to be properly read by anyone.