Re: Why I insist on my pupils writing properly formed English letters.

2018-08-15 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
It would, indeed seem to be the operating system as everything works 100% on Linux. Richmond. On 14.08.2018 23:51, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Mocked by an operating system, no less. If I set the font of my field to ANY font other than the one where a glyph in position hex 978 exists then

Re: Why I insist on my pupils writing properly formed English letters.

2018-08-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Mocked by an operating system, no less. If I set the font of my field to ANY font other than the one where a glyph in position hex 978 exists then glyph hex 978 is readily supplied; changing over to my own font (where a glyph is in place) I end up with a square: and this not by LiveCode

Why I insist on my pupils writing properly formed English letters.

2018-08-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Because some people who did not take handwriting very seriously, called the Marwari, started getting their letter 'D' wrong to the extent that it eventually began to be treated as a different letter by Indian Colonial Language experts at the end of the 19th century and then got plonked into the