Re: [MacPerl] bug in MIME::QuotedPrint ?

[Axel Rose <rose@sj.com>]

Hi Chris,

I can follow your explanation.
But consider an application I distribute to many Mac users in my company,
a MacPerl standalone which pops up a standard dialog where user may type in
a short message.
They use the standard font in a standard dialog.
I can't explain them to use different fonts and they will never accept
different keys for the same special character. Simply because that
little "ü" is printed onto a physical key of the keyboard.

ProFontISOLatin1 is a workaround for programmers.
Users expect to get the same letter from the same key press no
matter what font they choose (exception: symbol fonts, foreign fonts
like greek, arabic, ...)


>Window 1 (ProFont):
>  print ord 'u';  # this is option-shift-u, u (u with umlaut)
>Returns:
>  159
>
>Window 2 (ProFontISOLatin1):
>  print ord 'u';  # this is option-shift-z (u with umlaut)
>Returns:
>  252

ord() gives different results depending on font - very strange.
This only leads to question whether the keyboard input, the
rendered character or something else is considered as reference.
It won't help much in the moment to deepen this discussion.
My naming 'bug' to this thread was wrong.

I'll post my practical solution soon.


Regards


Axel


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