Kokonor and Corsiva Hebrew font question

Bria513 wrote:

They are not coming up in Tibetan or Hebrew characters as they are meant to.

You probably don't understand how languages work on a modern computer. You can't just change the font, you have to change the keyboard in system prefs/language & text/input methods.

If you type Latin characters in fonts like Kokonor and Corsiva which do not have them, something else will be used. In this case it looks like Apple Chancery

I have the same issue. I know that it is not coming up with Apple Chancery or Monotype Corsiva as a default font replacement for Corsiva Hebrew. The letters are not the same. Here is an example of the lettering for Corsiva Hebrew:

When I use the Apple Chancery I get this:

When I use Monotype Corsiva I get this:

So you see there is quite a bit of difference between the three. I have checked all my fonts and cannot seem to match the first one to anything else I have on my system. Any help would be much appreciated in solving this mystery.

I think it may still be Apple Chancery (or something very similar) with a glyph variant for the M.

Tom,

Yes, you are right! I was racking my brain about it and went through all of my fonts again. Apparently Apple Chancery changes in Pages depending on where the character is in the phrase or sentence. As Bria 513 says, "The first and last letters change depending on what letters surround them."

What I'd like to know is why this only happens in Pages. I have Pages 09. Is there a setting to allow the glyph varient to occur in other applications? I have tried writing the same text in Photoshop and Scribus with no varient taking place.

I also think it is funny that a font such as Corsiva Hebrew would render with some other font rather than showing blank squares as they do in Scribus when the font is unavailable. Do you have any idea why?

Sharon

The glyph variants normally require an Apple app -- they won't work with something by Adobe or many other third parties.

All modern unicode apps should normally automatically substitute another font when the one selected does not have the characters present in the text data. I think those that don't do that are missing something in their programming.

PS I should have mentioned that in Adobe apps you may well be able to make special typographical forms like glyph variants when using Adobe opentype fonts instead of Apple Chancery.