I installed a font that apparently does not contain an apostrophe. In the screenshot, I have typed an apostrophe three times. Each one has a different symbol in place of the apostrophe. I am using a U.S. English keyboard.
• What do these symbols mean?
• Why would each instance be different, even though I am typing the same character?
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Those symbols are what OS X displays when you are typing an unknown character in the Kannada, Thai, and Cham scripts. That font must be really messed up. Where did you get it exactly?
I got it from a stock site. What are the "Kannada, Thai, and Cham scripts"? Thanks.
CherylG3 wrote:
I got it from a stock site.
If you could provided more exact info about that, like the name and url, someone could try to duplicate your experience and see what was wrong with the font.
Those are scripts used to write the Kannada, Thai, and Cham languages. To find out more about them, just do a google search.
Thanks again. I purchased it from Creative Market, so I don't expect others to buy it.
But here's another, free font that has the same issue: http://www.dafont.com/bromello.font
I wonder if it has to do with the language of the system/keyboard used in the creation of the font?
Also, why would those three different symbols appear when I'm typing the very same character on my keyboard?
I can't duplicate the issue with Bromello. What app are you typing in when you see the odd characters? Does it happen in TextEdit, Mail, Pages, or Message?
What app are you typing in when you see the odd characters?
I'm using Font Book. The first screenshot below is Font Book, the second is TextEdit. As you can see in TextEdit, it looks like the missing glyphs are just filled in with some other typeface.
This is the text I'm using:
ABCDEFGHIJKLNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890
.,‘()”/-?!$&
fi fl ffi ffl
“Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz”
‘Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz’
CherylG3 wrote:
What app are you typing in when you see the odd characters?I'm using Font Book. The first screenshot below is Font Book, the second is TextEdit. As you can see in TextEdit, it looks like the missing glyphs are just filled in with some other typeface.
The problem is Font Book. If the font does not contain the characters you are typing, then there is no predicting what will be displayed in the Fontbook sample, and those odd chracters are nothing to worry about. If that kind of thing does not show up in an app like TextEdit, the font is OK. It just doesn't have any punctuation, so some other font has to be used when you type that. (It does seem pretty dumb though to make a font which has no punctuation included.)
It does seem pretty dumb though to make a font which has no punctuation included.
Agreed! Thanks for sticking with this, and for your help!
Font Book - What do these wacky symbols mean?
