Mac OS 0.4 Display Font

[bisonfish]

Hi,

recently downloaded the Mac version of rnc - it seems to work, as it will detect a node, but the font appears as shown in the attached screenshot. I am running Sierra. Is there something I might need to install to get this displaying correctly?

Thanks!

Andrew.

[hippyau]

Hi Bisonfish....

Well, this one is weird! I'm a MacOS beginner, so I am not really across the font handling and international language stuff, to be honest I've only made a VM of MacOS in English to compile the app for MacOS. Do you have settings in MacOS for your PC in a language other than English? or Multiple?

I'd like to fix this, even if it does not support other languages, it should still show a English font.

I'll look into this further.

[bisonfish]

Hi,

The OS contains font/keyboard maps for quite a few languages, but in system prefs/keyboard/inputs you can add anything apart from your home language, meaning if you were using say Arabic you could easily toggle between them in the menu bar. I only have the British keyboard added though.
I have seen characters like this before when copying something from Pages say, that has smart quote marks, into HTML, and they get rendered like this, something to do with UTF-8 support?
If there's anything you want me to try in order to help just let me know!

[hippyau]

Brilliant, thanks for the clues!

It does feel like a UTF issue doesn't it, like UTF-8 overflowing. I'll check it out :)

[hippyau]

It looks very much like this open flutter (the framework used) issue: flutter/flutter#57805

[hippyau]

I've update my flutter framework to the latest version on my MacOS VM (Big Sur 11.6)
I've built the project on the latest updates I have, the ZIP is below @bisonfish if you could give a try?

rnc-0.6.zip

[bisonfish]

Good news - this works OK on Big Sur 11.6.2. Not so good news - the same problem is still there on 10.11 and 10.12 (that I’ve tested!). So it is OS dependent at least, I guess it uses a font that they don’t have?

[hippyau]

Thanks, is really weird... as I am not even selecting a font, it's the default framework font - which I understand selects the default system font (what ever that is!?) If I knew what a font to select for all MacOS then I could specify that. I'll keep poking around :)

[bisonfish]

10.11 and 10.12 - there is a problem, tried installing the new system font SF Pro but still doesn't work. Tried it on Mojave (10.14 I think) and it did work, it also does on Big Sur.

Clearly something changes between these OSs in terms of font handling. If you can specify a font then maybe SF Pro would be the one to choose - Lucida Grande is the old system font, but it's possible to install SF Pro as I have.