an issues with fonts, or accufonts yet again.

John Hinsley johnhinsley at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Mar 13 18:04:10 UTC 2002


On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, John M McIntosh wrote:

> 
> Although this was a bug that I created in 3.2.5 Mac VM, further 
> checking and feedback by Raymond pointed out that he could *NOT* 
> display a capital accented E typed via his nifty french Canadian 
> keyboard.
> 
> Why, well the default font which many have a licensing issue with, is 
> actually flawed, and doesn't display the character for that ascii 
> value.

> 
> Therefore could I suggest we install AccuFonts into the 3.3. image to 
> correct this support issue and kill that licensing issue.  

> PS not that a license issue isn't a serious matter, but some really 
> don't care, but if you can't ever type capital accent E then you 
> might have a real barrier to Squeak usage.

Absolutely!  Go for it.

Of all of the solutions, this is probably the best overall route for all
architectures.

È una bella idea!

Cheers

John


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