On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 08:54 AM, John Hudson wrote:
> Actually, this isn't nonsense. A single buggy font is quite capable of > crashing an operating system. Obviously the damage is not permanent, > presuming one is able to get the system started in safe mode and remove > the offending font. I've seen some spectacularly nasty fonts over the > years, as have many of my colleagues (including engineers in the type > group at Apple, so this isn't simply a Windows issue). > C'est vrai. One of the fonts we used to print Unicode 2.0 killed *all* text display on the system if it were to be used with ATSUI. It was kind of cool, actually. We actually have a "font zoo" stashed away full of pathological fonts which have been known to do all kinds of interesting things if someone should be foolish enough to install them. ========== John H. Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/jenkins/
