Larry Gorbet <larrygorbet.TakeThisOut@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Running Mac OS 10.3.5, I notice a weird pattern of apparently
> unavoidable substitution in, I believe, Cocoa (but not Carbon) apps.
>
> If I enter the ligatured versions of "fi" or "fl" (shift-option 5 or
> 6), using the TrueType version of Lucida Bright, then just that
> character is replaced with a glyph from a different font. In TextEdit,
> I think it may be Lucida Grande; in Word 2004, it's Times New Roman. In
> Appleworks 6, however, the Lucida Bright version appears as expected.
>
> I do not believe this happened with at least the first few versions of
> OS 10.3.
I bet it did. What's changed is probably just the behavior of Word,
which now does Unicode and didn't before.
I'd need to see Lucida Bright in order to be sure, but my guess is that
this is not a Unicode compliant font and can be expected to misbehave
under Unicode. In any case you should not be using shift-option 5 or 6
in TextEdit or Word; when you type "fi" or "fl" the composite form
should be substituted. m.
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