And that would mean that once I have done the download, I would change the font 
in the jqt environment from 'Menlo' to 'Unifont' right? I will give it a try 
after dinner.

Cheers, bob

> On Jul 5, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iver...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You need a fixed font unicode font for the display to look right.
> 
> 
> This is the same problem you get with a proportional font with just ascii.
> 
> ***
> Following info from Bill:
> 
> Download and install the standard unifont ttf from
> 
> http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html
> 
> this should work for windows and mac.
> 
> For linux, use apt-get (or similar commands) to install unifont from distro
> repos.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:19 PM, robert therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Eric, I thought you said it would be up in a couple of days/weeks! Nice
>> work (and Beta 9 works fine on Darwin).
>> 
>> For Henry, it's different, although I am not sure it is an improvement for
>> boxing. I wish I had some useful suggestions, but with fixed width and the
>> inability to move characters within space, I am not sure how you resolve
>> this. Maybe box size could be based on the shape of the UTF-8 encoding,
>> although that ends up padding out to the right with the higher value for
>> the row index. Tricky.
>> 
>> Cheers, bob
>> 
>>       JVERSION
>> Engine: j804/j64/darwin
>> Release: commercial/2015-12-21 18:06:25
>> Library: 8.04.15
>> Qt IDE: 1.4.10/5.4.2
>> Platform: Darwin 64
>> Installer: J804 install
>> InstallPath: /applications/j64-804
>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
>> 
>>       < 3 4 $ 'a', (u: 30101), 'b'
>> ┌────────┐
>> │a疕ba  │
>> │疕ba疕│
>> │ba疕b  │
>> └────────┘
>>       < 3 4 $ 'a','疕', 'b'
>> ┌────┐
>> │a疕│
>> │ba��│
>> │�ba�│
>> └────┘
>> 
>>       JVERSION
>> Engine: j805/j64/darwin
>> Beta-9: commercial/2016-07-05T17:11:06
>> Library: 8.04.15
>> Qt IDE: 1.4.9/5.4.2
>> Platform: Darwin 64
>> Installer: J804 install
>> InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j64-804
>> Contact: www.jsoftware.com
>>     < 3 4 $ 'a', (u: 30101), 'b'
>> ┌──────┐
>> │a疕ba │
>> │疕ba疕│
>> │ba疕b │
>> └──────┘
>>    < 3 4 $ 'a', '疕', 'b'
>> ┌────┐
>> │a疕 │
>> │baç–│
>> │•baç│
>> └────┘
>>     $ ": 3 4 $ 'a', (u: 30101), 'b' NB. create UTF-8 encoding shape
>> 3 8
>>    < 3 8 $ 'x'  NB. this box would accommodate the size of the unicode,
>> but the box would need to be generated independently of the contents.
>> ┌────────┐
>> │xxxxxxxx│
>> │xxxxxxxx│
>> │xxxxxxxx│
>> └────────┘
>> 
>>> On Jul 5, 2016, at 3:29 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Source <
>> sou...@jsoftware.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> unicode looks better, but every one of these pages has misalignments
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ,. <"1 8 32 $ 4 u: 0 + i.256   NB. quarterwidth row 5
>>> 
>>> ,. <"1 8 32 $ 4 u: 256 + i.256
>>> ,. <"1 8 32 $ 4 u: 512 + i.256
>>> ,. <"1 8 32 $ 4 u: 768 + i.256  NB. first pages are digraph 0 (back)
>> space chars.
>>> 
>>> ,. <"1 8 32 $ 4 u: 1024 + i.256
>>> 
>>> 
>>> < (4 u: ,@:(3&u: ,. 758 + ?@(95"0))) 'Digraph char cheating'
>>> ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
>>> │D˿i̅g̢r˶a̭p̠h̡ ̗c̳h˻a̢r͒ ̒c̋h̭e̐a͒ṫi̵n̍g͒│
>>> └──────────────────────────────────────────┘
>>> 
>>> 
>>> alternate "real" diacritics, don't quite line up either
>>> 
>>> 
>>> dict =: ,&.>/"1 ((0 (0 ". '16b' , tolower@(4 5 6 7 &{)@{::) each ]) ,.
>> (1 (0 ". '16b' , tolower@(4 5 6 7 &{)@{::) every each ('</tr>';'<tr>')&(]
>> <;._1~  E.)  each)) (<'<tr class="letter_separator">')&(] <;._1~
>> +./@:E.every) dltb each cutLF a  NB. a is html source for
>> http://pinyin.info/unicode/diacritics.html
>>> 
>>> twist =:  4 u: ({. every dict)  (]  ({~  ?@#)@:(dict {::~ ])`[@.((#
>> dict) = ]) i.)("_ 0) 3 u: ]
>>> 
>>> ,. cut twist someasciitext
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Eric Iverson <eric.b.iver...@gmail.com>
>>> To: Source forum <sou...@jsoftware.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 5:22 PM
>>> Subject: [Jsource] j805-beta-9 release candidates
>>> 
>>> New tested builds for windows/linux/mac 32/64
>>> 
>>> This beta release has some significant performance improvements courtesy
>>> Henry Rich.
>>> 
>>> See http://www.jsoftware.com/download/jengine for more details,
>>> 
>>> If interested please install and play with these builds. Problems are
>> much
>>> better found now than later.
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