Unicode bug?

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
November 23, 2016
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Usually I have found FrameMaker's Unicode support to be pretty good, but today I wanted to use a character in the "Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols" range (effectively just an italic serif capital I, to indicate current in an engineering expression) and it didn't appear to work...

I found the character using the "BabelMap" careware utility, Paste-specialled it into Frame, and applied Microsoft's Cambria Maths font to it... and Frame still stubbornly just displayed it as a "?".

This Unicode range was introduced in 2001! I'd have thought Frame would support it by now... /sighs/

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Stefan Gentz

Legend

Hi,

can you give us the exact codepoint of the glyph? Is it " "? Is it U+1D43C? ("Mathematical Italic Capital I")

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feline_1973Author

Inspiring

Stefan, it is from this Unicode block here: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf

And the particular character that I was trying to use was, yes, U+1D43C "MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL I"

I appreciate I can just do a workaround by typing an ordinary letter I and applying a character style to make sure it uses a serif italic font. But it ought to work properly to begin with

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Probably not FM's fault - the font is the culprit I suspect ;>)

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feline_1973Author

Inspiring

Jeff, why do you say that? I have no particular way to rigorously test this other than to say "well it works absolutely fine in MS Word and Babel Map"... but it doesn't work in Frame.

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