Non Standard Unicode Fonts and how they appear on screen
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:22 pm
I use a non-standard font developed by myself which employs a large number of characters in the Personal Private Use Area.
In Macintosh and Linux builds these fonts display absolutely perfectly, as, indeed they do with a Windows build on Windows XP; but on versions of Windows post XP (Vista,7,8) the operating system substitutes a Microsoft standardised font where it can, and badly screws up where it cannot.
The following pictures are from builds made using LC version 6.0.
The first 2 characters are from the standard Unicode Devanagari charset, the second 2 are not.
Obviously "this cannot go on".
In Macintosh and Linux builds these fonts display absolutely perfectly, as, indeed they do with a Windows build on Windows XP; but on versions of Windows post XP (Vista,7,8) the operating system substitutes a Microsoft standardised font where it can, and badly screws up where it cannot.
The following pictures are from builds made using LC version 6.0.
The first 2 characters are from the standard Unicode Devanagari charset, the second 2 are not.
Obviously "this cannot go on".