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Re: A Font for Pictographs

From:Vincent Pistelli <pva003@...>
Date:Sunday, December 14, 2008, 15:14
Does it work on Firefox 3. IE is too junked up.

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>wrote:

> On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Gary Shannon wrote: >> >> --- On Sat, 12/13/08, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote: >>> >>> The font has been corrected to work properly with Microsoft Internet >>> Explorer. The new version has been uploaded to my page: >>> >>> <http://fiziwig.com/glyph/fragz01.html> >>> >> >> Has anyone gotten it working on a Mac? I'm having no luck. >> > > Also (and maybe this is part of the reason it's not working for me), could > someone help me out with symbol-encoded fonts on Macs? There are certain > fonts - like Symbol and the old SIL 93 IPA fonts - which don't seem to work > in OS X like on Windows. Namely, in Windows if you select Symbol and start > typing normal ASCII characters with it, they come out as Greek letters of > other symbols; but in OS X it just shows regular Roman text. Why is that, > and is there a way to change it? > > That seems to be true of some conscript fonts on web pages too - they show > up as regular Roman text. For some reason, David's Sidaan font displays > correctly. >