boxes instead of test

[Jakobi]

Dear all,

I feel this is a very basic question, but I cannot find the solution. So that's why I turn to you.
For a test project, I wanted to start a Georgian (the Republic, not the state ;-)) dictionary.
Georgian is written in Mkhedruli script.

Funny thing is that I cannot get Mkhedruli to render properly. It appears as the famous 'boxes'. See screenshot.
I already tried a couple of things:
- Enable graphite
- Change font
- Explicitly define script
- Copy + paste from notepad

So far, no success. Strangely enough, Cyrillic shows just fine.
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks a lot,
Jakobi

[Ron Lockwood]

Jakobi,

It's probably the font. It must not have the Georgian code points in it. I also got boxes when I tried pasting in some Georgian from Wikipedia. When I pasted it into MS Word it defaulted to the Sylfaen font. When I use this font in Fieldworks it displays properly.

Ron

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[Jakobi]

Thanks Ron. It WAS the font. Switched to Sylfaen and everything displayed as it should.
Strange thing then is why eg notepad.exe displays Mkhedruli perfectly in any font. Maybe some under the hood magic, that FLEx doesn't? Well, that's another discussion ;-)

Thanks

[Michael Maxwell]

Correct, some apps (including notepad, word) automagically substitute fonts when the default or specified font lacks a glyph for a particular code point.

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From: Jakobi
Sent: ‎6/‎1/‎2016 2:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [FLEx] boxes instead of test

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