I'm using Pictonic Cube https://pictonic.co/ on a website. When I connect to the site through an "old" smartphone like Android 2.3 or Symbian I get weird characters like chinese characters or squares. What I'm doing wrong? Am I missing something?
connect all versions of it's font. .woff is must have. Works almost everywhere. You can find some online utilties to make whole pack of nessecary fonts. Then just import it via CSS and sing the song.
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I'm using a pictograph web font called Entypo made by Daniel Bruce for a project, which does not work properly in Safari 5 for Windows. Yet the font works fine for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera.
Here's the character map. Open the link in Safari and you'll see missing pictographs. It seems like the unicode codes with 5 characters or more are throwing off Safari. Any idea why?
check this out.
http://www.open-logix.com/webtech/use-custom-webfontspictograms-in-5-steps/
I did some test with lots of browsers and even the different types of elements. Try testing it with span,div, and many other ones to see if there is a most compatible element tag.
There are issues on different browsers outside of safari as well, so don't be discouraged.
Take a look here: https://github.com/danielbruce/entypo/issues/14#issuecomment-19171286
I think this should "solve" your problem.
I have added the character after my name in my adress email. On Gmail or Ubuntu, it appears indeed as a . But people that read my emails on iphone get a small boar head!!
From what I read on Internet, iphone is using by default Helvetica font. And the tick is not a boar in this font.
Does anyone know where this could come from??
I asked a friend about your icon issue and he had me look into a popular emoticon plugin for iOS devices. Sure enough, after browsing through the icons, there was the small boar's head you are talking about.
The plugin is called Emoji and it essentially adds an extra keyboard to iOS Messages app. It's a possibility that the users who have reported this issue to you have that plugin installed on their devices? This might be where the icon is coming from. Let me know if you need any more information on this problem. I hope you are able to solve it!
I am building a website for a friend and it's just about done, apart from a bit more content, but now he tells me that it doesn't look right on his iphone. I have checked it on Safari, Opera, IE, Chrome and Firefox on laptop, and on my Android phone and on web-based iphone emulators and everything looks fine. I had him check on someone else's iphone and 1 of the problems goes but the other remains. My site is pretty basic, html and css only, but I am the first to admit that as I am new to this my code could probably be better.
The first issue is that above the header his iphone shows there are what's best described as 5 red bricks evenly spaced along the top. This doesn't show on his mates iphone.
The second issue is that on the "products" page, the right column text under the pictures isn't lined up properly, which is the case on his mates iphone. I don't know what to do here because if I alter the padding I used to line things up, it won't be right on every other browser/device.
I'm not sure what I'm best posting on here, the whole code for the site seems too much, but whatever needed to help answer just let me know. The site address for the products page is http://www.doortodoordrinksyork.com/products.html
Like I say I'm new to this so please keep answers simple.
Thanks in advance.
David.
PS Would appreciate anyone with an iphone telling me how the site displays on it.
If you use a Mac, you can use the iOS Simulator tool that comes with XCode to test out your site in a virtual iPhone/iPod. You can even compare different versions of the built-in browser, which I think is what's causing the difference between your mate's devices.
In general, well-built sites will 'work' without modification on mobile devices, but you may want to look into media queries, a CSS feature that lets you target specific screen sizes with different rules.
I've been working with ABBYY Mobile SDK for iPhone for sometime to recognize Chinese characters using the iPhone's camera. There are some characters that no matter how I tweak the image or DPI settings with the line [fineManager setDefaultImageResolution:dpi];, I cannot get the correct result and it's pretty damn frustrating.
Does anyone have tips as to how to increase ABBYY accuracy? Is ABBYY's Chinese library just not very extensive?
For example, this character just never gets recognized properly:
Thanks for any tips.
My iPhone app creates PDF files (in Arial font). The plain iPhone 3.1.x version works great (other than the known issue that PDF files created on the iPhone can't be viewed correctly in Google Docs or on the BlackBerry).
As I am updating my project for OS 3.2 and the iPad, it works just the same, and the PDF files still look great on the iPhone, iPad and Mac OS X (Preview app). But now on Windows (Vista), Acrobat 9.3.1 says "Cannot extract the embedded font 'XYZABC+ArialMT'. Some characters may not display or print correctly".
And in fact Acrobat then uses some generic font instead of Arial (or whatever other font I try).
Quartz 3.2 seems to generate these "random" embedded font names each time it creates a PDF file (the XYZABC changes around each time). I can't tell whether the problem is just the somewhat strange "temporary" embedded font name with the plus sign, or the way Quartz 3.2 is embedding fonts.
I have tried my existing code (using CGPDFContext* functions), and also the newly supported UIGraphics* functions, with the same results.
How can PDF files be created on the iPad to display correctly on Windows?
Important update: as of iOS 4.2, Apple have fixed the bug I reported; PDFs generated from Quartz on iOS now contain correctly embedded fonts. I am leaving the remainder of this answer as-is, but do not use this mechanism on iOS 4.2 or later.
Adobe Reader is correctly, if unhelpfully, following the PDF spec. I have investigated this because it was affecting one of my apps and documented my findings here: http://web.archive.org/web/20180909095127/http://blog.nomzit.com/2010/08/18/annoying-bug-in-quartz-pdfcontext-font-handling/
There is a simple workaround documented there which causes Adobe Reader to behave the same as the more helpful alternatives.
I have also reported the bug to Apple
Try to use Foxit Reader for opening your PDF files on Windows instead of Adobe Reader. It worked for me.
Using Pages on an iPad, the same issue occurs. I'd be interested to find an answer:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2389034&tstart=0
In addition to Phil's analysis, I've found that several Windows users did not have one or more of the standard fonts (like Helvetica) installed. The PDFs generated via Quartz would reference one of these standard fonts, which Adobe Reader would render using the next closest font in its lookup table, leading to odd-looking PDFs. The iPhone / iPad standard system fonts were not being embedded properly, possibly due to what Phil has found in the Quartz-generated PDFs.
In all the cases I ran across, this was solved by having the user install Helvetica (or any other missing font) on their Windows machine, at which point the PDFs would render properly.