I am running a test on an SSRS report to ensure that any data the user enters can be displayed correctly. The query contains the following string as nvarchar:
ربيالأردбъл (Бъля)àčދިވެހިބަސްΕλλάñøગુજરાहिं 日本ქაಕನ್ನಡ한국कोंकКमराठीसंस्कृतБосна и Херцеговина)ไทยاُردو中文(简体)фхцчшщ
In the text box where this is displayed in the report, most of this displays properly. However, there are two small portions which do not: Հայ, which is Armenian text; and ქა, which is Georgian. These two display rectangles instead of the characters, as if it cannot display those characters. Does anyone know how I can get it to display these characters properly like the rest of the string? Thanks!
In case anyone else needs an answer to this, it turned out not to be anything with the compiler or SSRS, but just the font. Arial, it seems, doesn't support those characters. I switched the font to Arial Unicode MS, which looks the same but has the characters supported, and that fixed characters.
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I'm working on some web font subsets and want to see what my font's notdef / U+0000 character looks like on-screen, in a browser.
I've tried printing known-missing glyphs like è, which every browser (old and new, Mac and Win) shows properly but in a some kind of fallback font.
I've tried printing but it doesn't show what is defined in my actual custom font. IE11 shows the White Square U+25A1, while every other browser shows the Replacement Character U+FFFD.
Steps to solve:
CSS? Remove all other css font-family fallbacks except my custom font. Result: Does not work.
CSS? Specify unicode-range: U+0000;, does not change anything.
Browser? Can confirm browser behavior is the reason I can't see my fallback glyph. Browser shows serif as default for undefined glyphs.
Question remains: How can I show my font's specific U+0000 / notdef in the browser? Maybe it can't be done? May have to create an extra font and fill it with notdef glyphs?
And why do browsers show as serif instead of the custom font's definition?
The only way I've found to force-show a font's built-in .notdef glyph is to go to unicode-table.com, click COPY and paste the character into my UTF-8 html.
(||) each print the font's built-in Replacement Character used to replace an unknown, unrecognized, or unrepresentable character. This even applies to fonts as basic as Arial, Times New Roman and Courier + Courier New.
EDIT: Firefox 52-94 will always show it's own built-in .notdef character.
Is there a setting where I can have the color thumbnail to show next to the color hexcode? Or is there a way in dreamweaver that I can quickly know the colors of the hexcode?
Sometimes when I rollover the hex code, it shows the color thumbnail but there are times when it is either veryyyyy slow to popup or it doesn't show at all. */This can chew some nerves./*
Is it due to a certain setting I missed or it is a by default behaviour? How can I have it show right next to the hex code?
You are working in the code view? Usually when you select the hex code in the stylesheet it will give you a quick view (thumbnail/icon) of the color, and even allow you to alter it.
Unicode has a lot of fancy code points that can be used to do things like change the direction text is formatted, include inband protocol information and other things.
I want to find out if there is a way of specifying, as part of a unicode string, a 'fallback' glyph or set of glyphs where an uncommon unicode code point is unrepresented in the font being used to display the text?
Example:
"æ<character to signify use following as alternate if previous character unavailable>ae<character to specify end of alternate>"
I've had a look through some of these code points at unicode.org and tried some different searches on SO without success. Some of the topics I've looked at:
Is there a way to programatically determine if a font file has a specific Unicode Glyph? (Windows/C#)
How to map code points to unicode characters depending on the font used? (Java)
I have a simple problem with my static text control. I want to write two sentences in two lines.
I searched everywhere, they answered that its style should not be simple and it should be big enough and then it can be done with \n or \r\n. Another guy wrote that it worked!
I did that, but it's not working! The caption is "Welcome to Genetic Algorithm Simulator Application.\nPlease Choose a Function:"
but it just ignores \n and shows this:
Welcome to Genetic Algorithm Simulator Application.Please Choose a Function:"
Also keep in mind that if the "Center Image" style (SS_CENTERIMAGE) is applied (giving you vertical centering of the text), then "\r\n" character sequences are ignored.
You should not set SS_SIMPLE style for static control. This is what is causing control to display only single line ignoring new line character. Get rid of this style and it will work.
I tried it with MFC in VS2008, in the static text control properties set the property "No Wrap" to False and the text should be automatically wrapped to the size of the control.
center image/no wrap/simple all these three options should set to be false!
Just apply the style SS_EDITCONTROL.
I am trying to send data to a specific MergeField. The data are sent correctly. Each line of the data has for specific characters. For example the data to the field may be:
12345 FIRST\nABCDE.F SECOND
(it cannot get the newline so i just so it through character \n)
Now in the printed document each character has its one width, '1' is smaller than 'E' for example. So the data are not alligned within the field. I tried the following fonts: Arial, Tahoma, Courier New. Nothing helped.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Ps the data are sent through an executable built by Visual C++ 5.0!!
You should probably use a tab-stop based layout. Set your tab-stops every, say, centimetre or so (i.e. just big than the widest character in your font) and add a tab before each element that needs to be aligned.
With this you shouldn't need to find a fixed width font and can use something more attractive.
Edit: Out of interest, I wonder why you have no luck with Courier New which is fixed width.
Maybe you could post a screenshot somewhere so we can have a look at your problem in more detail.
Try Courier - it does not have kerning (kerning = variable character width)
Also in the Font window there is a check box that allows you to apply kerning to fonts of a certain size or above - setting this value to a large font size may remove kerning.