> -----Original Message----- > From: John Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [users] Re: Font problems URGENT
> And I just > double-checked, and they are all still turned off. And even > if they were not, > what the heck font would a PostScript Laserjet 5SiMx substitute for > SIL_IPA93? Pretty sure that is not one of the "gang of 35." :) > > As I mentioned before, I tried other IPA fonts. All displayed > the same > problem, and all were worse than the SIL_IPA93 font. I've had similar problems, not just in printing. SIL_IPA93 is an ancient font in a non-standard 8-bit encoding. (There was no standard encoding for IPA in those days.) The font itself is fine, but some modern applications substitute each character of an 8-bit font into its Unicode equivalent. There's nothing wrong with that in principle, but unfortunately, they assume that any 8-bit font in unspecified encoding must be in Latin-1, and officiously substitute, not according to what each character actually is, but according to which Latin-1 character would normally be represented by that code. For instance, character 0163, which is normally the British pound sign in Latin-1, gets converted to the Unicode code for the British pound sign (00A3 hex), regardless of the fact that SIL_IPA93 has an entirely unrelated IPA character in position 0163, with a different Unicode equivalent. The best bet might be to abandon the 8-bit fonts altogether. The font called "Doulos SIL" (not to be confused with "SIL Doulos"!) is a Unicode IPA font that works well for me, including with the text that you mentioned on the website, which printed perfectly from OO 1.9.109 on Windows XP. Alec --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
