Re: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew West
On 24 October 2010 14:45, Peter Constable peter...@microsoft.com wrote: And I'd advise people to upgrade from Windows XP. The snide remark seems a little uncalled for. There are many reasons why people cannot or will not upgrade from XP, and I was simply pointing out an issue that may affect

RE: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Constable
From: Andrew West [mailto:andrewcw...@gmail.com] And I'd advise people to upgrade from Windows XP. The snide remark seems a little uncalled for. There are many reasons why people cannot or will not upgrade from XP, and I was simply pointing out an issue that may affect some users. My

Re: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-24 Thread Andrew West
On 13 October 2010 21:41, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: At the risk of spreading unsubstantiated FUD, I experienced system crashes (BSOD) twice in one day while trying to configure the composite-font feature in BabelPad

RE: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-24 Thread Peter Constable
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Andrew West However, further testing has indicated that standard Windows applications such as Notepad may blue screen crash on some systems when attempting to render U+1F5FD (Statue of Liberty, but replaced by

Re: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-24 Thread Andrew West
On 24 October 2010 13:56, Andrew West andrewcw...@gmail.com wrote: However, further testing has indicated that standard Windows applications such as Notepad may blue screen crash on some systems when attempting to render U+1F5FD (Statue of Liberty, but replaced by a glyph for the Angel of

Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-13 Thread Doug Ewell
Alan Wood alanmwood at yahoo dot co dot uk wrote: Incidentally, many of the new symbols in Unicode 6 are available in the Symbola font from George Douros, and they can be seen in Firefox: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ At the risk of spreading unsubstantiated FUD, I experienced system

Re: Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-13 Thread Andrew West
On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: Incidentally, many of the new symbols in Unicode 6 are available in the Symbola font from George Douros, and they can be seen in Firefox: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ At the risk of spreading unsubstantiated FUD, I experienced

James Kass and Code2000 font

2010-10-12 Thread Alan Wood
I am used to relying on fonts from James Kass to display new Unicode characters, but his fonts have not been updated for Unicode 5.2 yet, and he has not contributed to this list for some time. I have e-mailed him, but he has not replied, which is not usual for James. Does anyone know what has

Re: The Code2000 font.

2001-04-11 Thread Dennis L. Goyette
Is there a Linux version of this font or a way to convert it for linux??? James Kass wrote: Marco Cimarosti wrote about the Code2000 font, and so did 11digitboy. There is room for improvement in the font and I will consider your helpful comments. I'll respond to specific issues off

Re: The Code2000 font.

2001-04-11 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:38:55AM -0400, Dennis L. Goyette wrote: Is there a Linux version of this font or a way to convert it for linux??? It's TrueType - use it with XFree86 4.0, or xfstt. Alternately, you can convert it with ttf2bdf from the freetype project. -- David Starner - [EMAIL

Re: The Code2000 font.

2001-04-11 Thread Dennis L. Goyette
ok thanks.. how does linux unzip .zip files... does tar do it or is there another command??? David Starner wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:38:55AM -0400, Dennis L. Goyette wrote: Is there a Linux version of this font or a way to convert it for linux??? It's TrueType - use it

Re: The Code2000 font.

2001-04-10 Thread James Kass
Marco Cimarosti wrote about the Code2000 font, and so did 11digitboy. There is room for improvement in the font and I will consider your helpful comments. I'll respond to specific issues off-list and request that anyone who wants to discuss the font's merits and/or shortcomings contact me