Decker's Reading Koine Greek problem – only in iOS

[Julia Falling]

Hey –

 

This displays properly on the Mac, but not on my iPad.  Same font choice (Gentium Basic).

 

Where there are boxes, there ought to be ≠ signs.

 

 

P.S.  I'm guessing there is a way to report this directly from the iPad instead of here?  Help … ?

[Michel Gilbert]

Hi Julie and Acc,

This is similar to the problems I’m having with Ugaritic texts. There seems to be isolated problems with Unicode on the iPad, either in font assignments for specific modules or with Unicode values themselves. The boxes appear when an OS can’t recognize an assigned value.

Regards,

Michel

[Julia Falling]

Michel –

 

Does switching to a particular font fix it?  My husband is using Palatino and sees the same issue — I don't think Palatino is unicode, but I could be wrong.

 

Looks like we may have to wait for an iOS update for a fix.

Edited May 13, 2016 by Julie Falling

[Michel Gilbert]

If you’re using Gentium from SIL, I think it is Unicode. I just tried Palatino in Pages and it’s Unicode also. The underlying code matches a font and a character value. If Acc assigned a Unicode font and all the Unicode characters are assigned correctly, any Unicode font will work. It wouldn’t hurt to try another Unicode font like Times New Roman or Arial. If one of them works, the problem is with Gentium or Palatino. If they don’t, the problem is with the Unicode assignments.

Of course, I’m just offering my opinion that there might be a common issue here.

[Chris Rockwell]

Hey Julie, 

 

As Michel mentioned, this does seems to be related to his issue and we hope to have a fix in our next release. This is good info and I can hopefully reproduce this case which will assist us in finding a fix.

 

Thanks,

 

Chris

[Julia Falling]

Michel –

 

I tried at least a dozen different fonts.  None displayed correctly.  I'm not sure it's a general font problem, but maybe just a special character problem?

Chris –

 

Thanks for looking into this.  

Edited May 13, 2016 by Julie Falling

[Michel Gilbert]

Michel –

 

. . .  but maybe just a special character problem?

 

 

I think so. And, the majority of strange characters or boxes appear to be rendering combination characters, and I know Acc has had trouble with them before.

[Julia Falling]

Well, we've got the problem IDed and Chris & the iAccord team know about it.  Is iAccord 2.3.2 the latest version?  Any iOS testing going on right now?

[Chris Rockwell]

Julie, 

 

Yes, 2.3.2 is the current version and we haven't release a 2.3.3 external beta yet, but it's in the works.

 

Chris.

[Julia Falling]

Thanks!