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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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<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7809" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7809">Apple last week released Security Update 2004-09-07 to address a slew of security-related issues. Updated components include Apache 2, CoreFoundation, FTP, IPSec, Kerberos, OpenLDAP, OpenSSH, PPPDialer, QuickTime Streaming Server, rsync, Safari, SquirrelMail, and tcpdump - see Apple's site for details</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 Sep 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7810" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7810">Those of you who have been around for a decade or so probably remember Easy View, Akif Eyler's free text browsing utility. Easy View understood a number of text formats, including the setext format that we use for the text edition of TidBITS, and provided a three-pane view into TidBITS</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 Sep 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7811" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7811">I like my iPod, but I've always detested the wired earbuds, partly because I dislike things inside my ears, but mostly because the wires are constantly tangled and in 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> | 13 Sep 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7800" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7800">DealBITS Drawing: FMChecker Winners -- Congratulations to Adrian Smith of centenary.usyd.edu.au, Sassan Tabrizi of mac.com, Michael J Rath of mm.com, Murray Sihvon of mac.com, and Russ Cusimano of doberescue.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of FMChecker.com's FMChecker</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 Sep 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7802"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7802', 'show')">Internet Music Battles Heat Up</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7802" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7802">Apple's announcement last week of the iTunes Affiliate Program, iTunes on Campus, and the iTunes Volume Discount program represents the next escalation in what is turning into a heated battle for control of the Internet music services (which is somewhat surprising, given that no one is yet making money on music sales, something that may never happen)</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 Sep 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7803" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7803">Normally, Matt Neuburg looks at all the text management and snippet keeping utilities for TidBITS, but back when AquaMinds' NoteTaker and Circus Ponies' NoteBook were coming out, he dove into NoteTaker (see "Take Note of NoteTaker" in TidBITS-677) and I opted to take a look at NoteBook</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 Sep 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7787" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7787">SpamSieve 2.2 Improves Accuracy, Notification -- Michael Tsai has released SpamSieve 2.2, the latest version of his award-winning anti-spam program for a number of common email clients (see "Tools We Use: SpamSieve" in TidBITS-667)</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7790"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7790', 'show')">Adam's "Take Control of Buying a Mac" Interviews</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7790" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7790">Adam's "Take Control of Buying a Mac" Interviews -- After releasing "Take Control of Buying a Mac" recently, I did a pair of radio interviews, one for Shawn King's Your Mac Life show, and one for Gene Steinberg's Mac Night Owl show (in the second half)</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7791" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7791">FileMaker Pro 7 has been out for few months now, and since FileMaker Pro 6 soon won't be available for purchase, many people are facing the need to upgrade</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7792"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7792', 'show')">My Action Figure Can Beat Up Microsoft's Action Figure</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7792" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7792">Now here's an odd marketing campaign - so odd, in fact, that I wonder if I'm missing a level or two of self-mocking irony. Microsoft is running a sweepstakes to promote Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac based on the slogan, "Get in touch with your inner suit." This is a good thing? "Suit" isn't generally a positive term - the suits are the buttoned-down executives generally responsible for (or at least blamed for) all the bad stuff in technology companies</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7794"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7794', 'show')">The Story Behind Take Control Updates</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7794" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7794">As you know, we offer free minor updates to our Take Control ebooks to customers; it's a great way for authors to keep their ebooks up to date with new software releases, to respond to feedback from readers, and to fix any mistakes that slipped in</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7795"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7795', 'show')">BBEdit 8.0: Even More Muscular</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7795" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7795">BBEdit has long enjoyed a well-deserved reputation as a powerful text editor for programmers and HTML coders, so when Rich Siegel, CEO of Bare Bones Software, wanted to show me the latest features in BBEdit 8.0, available today, I was curious about where they could have taken the program</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7778"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7778', 'show')">Welcome Benjamin Warner Fleishman!</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7778" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7778">Welcome Benjamin Warner Fleishman! Our heartiest congratulations to Contributing Editor Glenn Fleishman and his wife Lynn Warner, on the birth of their son Benjamin last Wednesday, 18-Aug-04</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> | 23 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7779"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7779', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: Mail Factory Winners</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7779" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7779">DealBITS Drawing: Mail Factory Winners -- Congratulations to Tomas Serna of ngsec.com, Norm Norris of mac.com, Martin Tschofen of carlson.com, Jody Sebring of ptdprolog.net, and Jan Ferrera of yahoo.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a copy of BeLight Software's Mail Factory</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> | 23 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7780"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7780', 'show')">Allume Ships Spring Cleaning 7</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7780" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7780">Allume Ships Spring Cleaning 7 -- Allume Systems has shipped Spring Cleaning 7, the company's long-standing cleanup utility for identifying unwanted files and folders and dealing with them (in ways other than just wholesale deletion)</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> | 23 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7781"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7781', 'show')">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.5.3 Improves Servers</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7781" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7781">Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.5.3 Improves Servers -- Now Software has released Now Up-to-Date & Contact 4.5.3, a bug-fix upgrade to the company's multi-user calendaring and contact software</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> | 23 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7783"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7783', 'show')">Take Control of Buying a Mac</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7783" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7783">If there's one question I've learned to dread over the years, it's "What Mac should I buy?", followed closely by "When is Apple going to release new Macs?" It's not that I mind helping people, but these simple queries are, if I'm to do the topic justice, the start of at least an hour of conversation and further questions</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> | 23 Aug 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7770" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7770">TidBITS Dutch Translation News -- In our continuing push to switch services over to Web Crossing, we moved the TidBITS Dutch translation of TidBITS to a Web Crossing-based list last week</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7771" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7771">DealBITS Drawing: DLexpo VIP Pass Winners -- Congratulations to Andrew Laurence of uci.edu (who was apparently rewarded at a karmic level for writing the EyeHome review in last week's issue), Andrew Cohen of sandrew.org, Kerry Millerick of pacbell.net, Martin Cohen of acm.org, and Pat Dengler of mac.com, whose entries were chosen randomly in last week's DealBITS drawing and who each received a VIP pass to last weekend's DLexpo</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
<a href="/article/7772"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('7772', 'show')">DealBITS Drawing: BeLight's Mail Factory</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_7772" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_7772">I hate mailing packages. Along with the extra trip to the post office and the fuss of finding proper packaging materials, there's the label. I've always liked the idea of printing labels rather than writing them out by hand (since my handwriting is lousy, and copying an address from an email message just feels silly)</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 Aug 2004</div></div>
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