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<h6>Is it a Unicode Font?</h6>
<p><p>To determine if your font is Unicode-compliant, with all its characters coded and mapped correctly, choose the Font in any program (or in Font Book, set the preview area to Custom (Preview > Custom), and type Option-Shift-2. </p><p>If you get a euro character (a sort of uppercase C with two horizontal lines through its midsection), it's 99.9 percent certain the font is Unicode-compliant. If you get a graphic character that's gray rounded-rectangle frame with a euro character inside it, the font is definitely not Unicode-compliant. (The fact that the image has a euro sign in it is only coincidental: it's the image used for any missing currency sign.)</p><p>This assumes that you're using U.S. input keyboard, which is a little ironic when the euro symbol is the test. With the British keyboard, for instance, Option-2 produces the euro symbol if it's part of the font.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/1205"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1205', 'show')">Giving Back to the Net</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1205" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1205">Giving Back to the Net -- We're pleased to welcome our latest sponsor, America Online, the largest of the commercial online services. We've razzed AOL on occasion for blitzing us with AOL software disks, but as the commercial online services go, AOL has been the most forward-thinking</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Dec 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1211"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1211', 'show')">Truncated Uploads with Fetch</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1211" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1211">Truncated Uploads with Fetch -- Several people have reported a bug with Fetch 3.0 truncating uploads on PCI Power Macs using Open Transport via a SLIP or PPP connection</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Dec 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1212"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1212', 'show')">1995 Gift Suggestions</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1212" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1212">First, thanks to everyone who sent in suggestions! I received way too many to include all of them, even after some judicious editing, so I decided to stick to a few basic rules</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 11 Dec 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1215" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1215">Another capitalist feeding frenzy season is upon us, and we at TidBITS are going to help in our usual fashion, by soliciting new, unique, or interesting gift ideas for the Macintosh user on your list</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 04 Dec 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1227" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1227">Fetch Updated -- Jim Matthews recently released Fetch 3.0, the latest version of the popular $25 shareware FTP client for the Mac. Fetch 3.0 retains the look of previous versions, but has changed to support multiple connections and bookmark lists</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Nov 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1231"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1231', 'show')">InterviewBITS with Peter Lewis, Part 2</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1231" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1231">This week we conclude our interview from TidBITS-304 with Peter Lewis , one of the best-known Macintosh Internet programmers.[Adam] As a developer primarily concerned with the Internet, what are your feelings about Netscape - the company or the program? Netscape has stirred some strong feelings with its non-standard HTML extensions, and the company's IPO in August was certainly astonishing.[Peter] I'm not particularly fond of either</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 27 Nov 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1232" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1232">A few months ago, I completed a white paper for Apple, called "Apple and the Internet: The Macintosh Advantage." If you are interested, you can now read the paper on the Web, where it appears to be identical to the paper version other than including my bio at the end</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Nov 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1242"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1242', 'show')">Digital Camera Details</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1242" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1242">My articles regarding digital cameras (starting in TidBITS-297) have prompted scores of comments, including reports of newer and cooler cameras. Each time I get a new report, I think, "Enough about these digital cameras," and each time I read the note and think "Wow, that's too cool!" So, here are more details about the Ricoh DC-1 (or RDC-1, depending on who you believe) digital camera along with a note from Japan about a new single-lens reflex digital camera from NEC</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Nov 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1243"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1243', 'show')">InterviewBITS with Peter Lewis, Part 1</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1243" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1243">Peter Lewis is one of the best-known Macintosh Internet programmers, with about 20 programs in distribution on the Internet. Most are freeware or inexpensive shareware in the $5 to $10 range</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 20 Nov 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1246"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1246', 'show')">$10,000 Internet Security Challenge</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1246" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1246">$10,000 Internet Security Challenge -- I wrote about the WebMaster Macintosh security challenge back in TidBITS-295 and, as expected, no one was able to break WebSTAR's security and claim the prize of free passes to the WebEdge conference</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 13 Nov 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1249" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1249">IKEA -- Sorry for not having tracked down a phone number for IKEA before for those of you who wanted to get a catalog and check out the Jerker desks I mentioned recently</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 13 Nov 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1255"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1255', 'show')">The Internet is In</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1255" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1255">When Apple introduced its second-generation commercial information service, eWorld, the stated goal was to have eWorld eventually replace the expensive and aging AppleLink</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 13 Nov 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1266"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1266', 'show')">Keep on Moving</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1266" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1266">My article on moving in TidBITS-301 spawned many responses from readers, including more stories and advice regarding original boxes, explanations of electronic companies, explanations of IKEA, other moving horror stories, and lots of good advice</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 06 Nov 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1277" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1277">Tonya and I just moved, and although moving is a traumatic experience in the best of times, it gets hairy when you try to move computers and not have much down time</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 30 Oct 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1291"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1291', 'show')">Digital Camera Redux</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1291" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1291">We received a number of interesting comments about my articles relating to digital cameras. Among them was someone who wanted to take 5,000 pictures of an entire town (sounded like the QuickTake could handle it well), and a note from Chris Kimm of Kinko's commenting that you can test drive a QuickTake 150 from any Kinko's store for $5 per hour or $25 per day</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 16 Oct 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1299"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1299', 'show')">Extending Digital Cameras</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1299" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1299">At Macworld Boston this August a number of companies exhibited add-ons to the QuickTake and its relative from Kodak, the Kodak Digital Camera 40.Tiffen was showing a line of essentially identical accessories for both the QuickTake and the Kodak Digital Camera 40 (the QuickTake and the Digital Camera 40 were designed in a joint Apple-Kodak project)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 09 Oct 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1306"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1306', 'show')">Welcome to DealBITS</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1306" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1306">We've decided to try something a little different. Today's computer industry continually pressures companies to lower prices, but at the same time the price of entrance for a small business trying to make a name for itself continues to increase</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Oct 1995</div></div>
<a href="/article/1309"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('1309', 'show')">Digital Photographs as a Way of Life</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1309" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1309">Tonya and I recently acquired one of Apple's QuickTake 150 digital cameras, and it's probably the Apple device that's most affected us since the PowerBook 100 (the machine I'm using to write this, by the way)</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 02 Oct 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1311" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1311">By the time you see this, Tonya and I will have moved into our new house in Issaquah, Washington. We simply needed more space to escape the gravitational pull of our computers and explore the most appropriate ways to integrate technology into life</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Sep 1995</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_1317" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_1317">Cyberspace Development has updated The Internet Adapter, or TIA. Released in August of 1994 (see TidBITS-239), TIA enables a Unix machine to provide graphical Internet access without additional expensive hardware by emulating SLIP, and - new in version 2.0 - CSLIP (Compressed SLIP) and PPP</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->
<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=" class="category"></a> | by <a href="/author/Adam%20C.%20Engst">Adam C. Engst</a> | 25 Sep 1995</div></div>
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