Odd font rendering when combining Japanese & English text

[t]

This probably isn't a huge priority, but the behavior has been going
on for so long now that I figured I should mention it eventually. :)

Problem is I'm not entirely sure how to explain it. It has something
to do with the font rendering, the easiest way to duplicate it (for
me) is to just bounce in and out of the repo, which causes all kinds
of odd effects. Most of the information is in the pictures, so I'll
spare you the retyping!

http://i.imgur.com/puvBk.png -- Calibri, western script
http://i.imgur.com/GKZpp.png -- Meiryo, japanese script
http://i.imgur.com/3VhHN.png -- consolas, western script

With Meiryo, I can't actually test it with western script because the
option won't save -- it just resets itself back to Japanese script.
I'm not sure it'd make any difference, but it is another behavioral
oddity.

Hopefully this kind of illustrates what is going on. For references
sake, I'm running Win7 64bit, non-unicode applications ("System
Locale") are defaulting to Japanese locale. That last bit may be
causing the script issue with Meiryo.

I've been using writemonkey religiously for quite some time now and
love it to death, but this display oddity sort of drives me nuts
whenever I have to write something that uses high unicode characters
(er, is that the right term?). The examples above mostly revolve
around Japanese but the same behavior happens if I just use an em dash
straight from Consolas too (—). It behaves just like the third
picture in the examples above.

[Kensai]

Yeah, never had any success toggling Repo and back without weirdness,
so I abandoned its use many, many, many moons ago. As far as I can
see these issues are just one more reason to get the sidebar and
project management functionality fired up so we can just remove the
Repository functionality.

Only thing I can think to maybe manually correct for the weird
rendering would be to Shift-scroll wheel zoom in and out on your
document and see if that resets things to proper rendering.

Kensai

On Mar 15, 6:10 pm, t <twini...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This probably isn't a huge priority, but the behavior has been going
> on for so long now that I figured I should mention it eventually.  :)
>
> Problem is I'm not entirely sure how to explain it.  It has something
> to do with the font rendering, the easiest way to duplicate it (for
> me) is to just bounce in and out of the repo, which causes all kinds
> of odd effects.  Most of the information is in the pictures, so I'll
> spare you the retyping!
>

> http://i.imgur.com/puvBk.png-- Calibri, western scripthttp://i.imgur.com/GKZpp.png-- Meiryo, japanese scripthttp://i.imgur.com/3VhHN.png-- consolas, western script

[josip]

This is not the repository issue, but a font bug that has already been reported with some other languages (Polish ...). In some circumstances (usually after insertion of "strange, foreign" character the font changes ... I do not have a solution for that one ...
iztok

[josip]

@kensay The only problem with repository (that I am aware of) is that if you change the font zoom ratio in main text, switch to *empty* repo and then switch back, the zoom ratio is lost and the font switches back to original size set in preferences. This is because font zoom can't be retained with no chars in richtextbox (empty repo). I don't know why is that and it can probably be fixed with some dirty hack. If there is at least one char in repo, the problem goes away ... Or do you see any other problems?
i.

[t]

Yeah, sorry to confuse, I was just using toggling via repo to be an
example, as it happens whenever you reopen a file with "foreign"
characters, etc, I knew it was more wide-spread than just that. Alas,
I was kind of hoping it was just me, instead of some stubborn bug. :)

I'll just keep splitting the workload for now, but Writemonkey is
still my favorite application to write in.

Thanks much!