On 13 October 2010 21:41, Andrew West <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 October 2010 17:48, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> 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 Symbola 6.00 >> on Windows XP SP3. > > Unfortunately this is a known issue with BabelPad and BabelMap, and > not the fault of Symbola.
This problem has been fixed in the new Unicode 6.0 versions of BabelMap and BabelPad that I finally released today. <http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2010/10/babelpad-and-babelmap-version-6000.html> 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) with Symbola version 6.00 at high point sizes (pasting 12 x U+1F5FD into Notepad with font set to Symbola 72pts reliably crashes my Windows XP machine, but not my Vista machine). So I advise people to use the Symbola font with caution. Andrew
