On 17/09/2012 8:01 PM, Wei JIANG [PT-CN] wrote: > Hello Alison and Stuart, > > Myriad Pro IS a Unicode font. The thing is, that specific character, and > many other characters in the same group, are not included in this font. > You can verify this in Character Map. > > So, Unicode is a way to encode the characters in a font, but that font > may not include all characters. Even if in the so-called "catch-all" font > Arial Unicode MS, some characters are missing! > > Kindest, > Wei Jiang > English<>Chinese Translator and Multilingual DTPer based in Beijing, China
Thanks Wei Jiang, But Christoph Korsmeier has the right answer. In Windows 7, I can "verify" in Character Map that Myriad Pro definitely has the glyph; it appears in a group of glyphs that is also peppered with boxed-X's indicating missing glyphs, leading one with "certainty" to the conclusion that Myriad Pro includes the checkmark. It's a lie. In Windows XP, the Character Map shows the truth: the entire part of the unicode range that Win7 claims to include that glyph (and a whole bunch of other dingbat-style glyphs) is nothing but boxed-X's. Evidently Win7 and Microsoft products like Word do a behind-the-scenes font substitution, which FM does not recognize. (According to forums, neither does Photoshop, so perhaps it's Adobe-wide.) I know how to work around this issue, but I've wasted a lot of time uncovering Microsoft's malfeasance; I'm extremely annoyed! Thanks to all, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
