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.
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