On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Angel Herráez wrote:
>
>
> Jonathan, I'm not totally sure, but I seem to recall that this Mac-
> specific way of encoding has happened to us before. Maybe that was
> why I never could come to a conclusion about our problems with
> characters after many tests. Pages created in Win have no trouble,
> pages created in Mac do. I could never believe that and so assert
> it, but I think that was my internal conclusion.
> So it may well not be a MacJava problem, but a MacOS one.
>
> Uff!
>
>
Through MacOS 9 it was definitely a problem. MosOS 10 is just BSD
Unix. Most things work just like a linux machine. However, I
occasionally run into things that seem to be legacy issues that I
think are still there for compatibility with old mac stuff. One of
the most common areas is text rendering, where Apple made decisions
about coding before anybody else had the ability to handle special
characters. Unfortunately, I am not aware of a pattern. Thus I am
constantly surprised. Most of the time things are fine occasionally
things get weird. So I would guess some of the problems may be in
the MacOS/font choices and some of it may be hiding in the Apple
version of the Java Virtual machine. Apple maintains its own virtual
machine and it does not appear to be the same as the PPC and Cell
virtual machine maintained by IBM and others (I also think their
virtual machine on the intels is not a direct copy of the SunJava
VM). I use some PPC linux machines using the IBM PPC JVM and haven't
seen odd behavior.
Jonathan
Dr. Jonathan H. Gutow
Chemistry Department [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UW-Oshkosh Office:920-424-1326
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Oshkosh, WI 54901
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/gutow/
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