Re: Unicode fonts - black diamonds in displayed email

On 26/02/2017 18:59, Ewen Pring wrote:
> Could anyone help me display accented characters in Messenger Pro 7.08
> (RISC OS 5.23)?
>
> If I display an email in DejaVuSans (outline font), accented
> characters appear as question marks in black diamonds. I also tried
> Fanwood font, and some older fonts (the latter don't display anything
> at all, not even the diamond).
>
> However, if I switch the display to "bitmap font", the same accented
> characters show correctly in System font.

You need a recent high quality outline font to display such characters. 
Older fonts (pre RISC OS 4) and public domain fonts converted from other 
platforms won't have these characters.

Try some of the ones supplied with/build in to RISC OS 5.

Cheers
-- 
David J. Ruck
email: druck@...
phone: +44(0)7974 108301

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