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.

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

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew West
On 24 October 2010 14:45, Peter Constable 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 some users. Anyhow, I w

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

2010-10-24 Thread Andrew West
On 24 October 2010 13:56, Andrew West 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 Death in Symbola) wi

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

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

2010-10-24 Thread Andrew West
On 13 October 2010 21:41, Andrew West wrote: > On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell 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 6.0.0.0 (beta D) to use Symbol

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

2010-10-13 Thread Andrew West
On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell 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 >

Symbola font (was: James Kass and Code2000 font)

2010-10-13 Thread Doug Ewell
Alan Wood 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 crashes (BSOD) twice in one day whil

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