Device fonts on korean win98 and \u00a0

I've created some movie to test display of some characters on
non western windows. On korean win98se i received strange result.
in text rendered with device fonts character merges with
next character and appears as korean glyph. With selection i can
'split' this glyph to space and next character. With embedded fonts
wverything works fine.
Is there solution/workaround to avoid this problem? i dont
want to use embedded fonts, to keep swf file size in reasonable
limits.
images:
(movie compiled with mx2004 and played with FP9, win98se ko,
text : "The\u00a0Man in the High\u00a0Castle..\\.")
strange
glyph
selection
from left (nbsp selected)
selection
from right (M selected)

Tom Gewecke wrote:
He is no doubt referring to what has happened to his songs in iTunes. It is a common problem when transferring from Windows.
Thank you.
So, what the OP is actually trying to say is that his ID3 tags are mojibake. (Not that his Korean fonts are 'scrambled' or some files are 'unreadable'.)
crystalchung worte:
I tried the id3 tags and reverse unicode and the whole 9 yards.
If the above is correct, what was that about, trying "the id3 tags and reverse unicode and the whole 9 yards"? You haven't even gone 9 inches, let alone 9 yards…
IMHO, the best way to fix this is at the source. On Win, convert the ID3 tags in your Korean music files to ID3 v2.4 and their text encoding from CP 949 (presumably that's what they're in) to Unicode (UTF-8). If your media manager doesn't have this capability, get mp3tag.
<http://mp3tag.de/>
Here are some basic instructions
<http://www.nixer.org/encoding-id3-tags-mp3>
(Note that options in the most recent version of mp3tag may be slightly different; also, the author recommends ID3 v2.3/UTF-16. It's up to you; I prefer v2.4/UTF-8.)
If you no longer have access to the PC, you can try to run mp3tag on your Mac in a compatibility layer (Wine), or a VM (eg, Parallels), or under Boot Camp. Look here for a Mac app-plus-integrated compatibility wrapper version of mp3tag.
<http://vortexbox.org/threads/3251-Mac-OS-X-version-of-mp3tag>
I've never used it, so I don't know how well it runs.
Whatever option you choose, try it first on a couple of files and check if fixes the issue before processing all your files. And it's best to work on a copy of your music library, just in case anything goes wrong.

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As I've noted several times, setting the text property to its own current value should not be necessary to update the metrics, and in some subclasses of text field, setting a property to its own value is ignored as the property is not actually changing and processing such a change would cause unnecessary work which could impact application performance. Metrics should be current upon calling getLineMetrics. They are not. That's the problem.
From a programming perspective, having to set the text property (really "htmlText" to preserve formatting) to itself to update metrics is almost unmanagable, and doesn't even make sense considering "htmlText" is just one of a dozen properties and methods on a TextField that could invalidate the layout metrics (alignment, setTextFormat, width, height, antiAliasMode, type, etc.), and I would have to override every one of those properties so that I could set htmlText = htmlText. Using such a subclass isn't even possible if I want to use the Flash IDE to add text fields to the stage. I would have to iterate over the display list and replace all existing fields with my subclass, which also isn't a good workaround because there's no way to update any and all variable references that may have been made to those instances.
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Message was edited by: yachts99
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Flash10h.ocx
FlashAuthor.cfg
FlashInstall.log
flashplayer.xpt
FlashUtil10h_ActiveX.dll
FlashUtil10h_ActiveX.exe
install.log
NPSWF32.dll
NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe
uninstall_plugin.exe
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerTrust:
Adobe Search For Help.cfg
AdobeFireworksCS5.cfg
AdobeXMPFileInfo.cfg
AdobeXMPFileInfoCS5.cfg
kuler.cfg
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import javax.print.DocFlavor;
import javax.print.SimpleDoc;
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psTSP100 = ps[i];
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+ "Star TSP100 Cutter (TSP143) in the name");
showStatus = false;
try {
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String openDrawer1Command = ((char) 0x07) + "";
byte by[] = openDrawer1Command.getBytes();
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job.print(doc, null);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Whoa bro. The printer is balls. Check it:");
e.printStackTrace();
try {
DocPrintJob job = psTSP100.createPrintJob();
String openDrawer2Command = ((char) 0x1A) + "";
byte by[] = openDrawer2Command.getBytes();
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.BYTE_ARRAY.AUTOSENSE;
Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(by, flavor, null);
job.print(doc, null);
showStatus = true;
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Whoa bro. The printer is balls. Check it:");
e.printStackTrace();
showStatus = false;
public boolean getStatus() {
return showStatus;
//ASCII Cheat Sheet:
/* 00 NUL | 01 SOH | 02 STX | 03 ETX | 04 EOT | 05 ENQ | 06 ACK | 07 BEL
08 BS | 09 HT | 0A LF | 0B VT | 0C FF | 0D CR | 0E SO | 0F SI
10 DLE | 11 DC1 | 12 DC2 | 13 DC3 | 14 DC4 | 15 NAK | 16 SYN | 17 ETB
18 CAN | 19 EM | 1A SUB | 1B ESC | 1C FS | 1D GS | 1E RS | 1F US
20 SP | 21 ! | 22 " | 23 # | 24 $ | 25 % | 26 & | 27 '
28 ( | 29 ) | 2A * | 2B + | 2C , | 2D - | 2E . | 2F /
30 0 | 31 1 | 32 2 | 33 3 | 34 4 | 35 5 | 36 6 | 37 7
38 8 | 39 9 | 3A : | 3B ; | 3C < | 3D = | 3E > | 3F ?
40 @ | 41 A | 42 B | 43 C | 44 D | 45 E | 46 F | 47 G
48 H | 49 I | 4A J | 4B K | 4C L | 4D M | 4E N | 4F O
50 P | 51 Q | 52 R | 53 S | 54 T | 55 U | 56 V | 57 W
58 X | 59 Y | 5A Z | 5B [ | 5C   \ | 5D   ] | 5E ^ | 5F _
60 ` | 61 a | 62 b | 63 c | 64 d | 65 e | 66 f | 67 g
68 h | 69 i | 6A j | 6B k | 6C l | 6D m | 6E n | 6F o
70 p | 71 q | 72 r | 73 s | 74 t | 75 u | 76 v | 77 w
78 x | 79 y | 7A z | 7B { | 7C | | 7D } | 7E ~ | 7F DEL */
{code}
Edited by: StoneBrooks on Sep 10, 2010 11:24 AM

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- robin

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How does one change the font size for folders and/or file lists in the '''Bookmarks''' Library?
Since the upgrade to version 9.0.1 of Firefox, the Bookmarks feature changes are confusing me. They seem to be confusing themselves as well. The list of bookmarks has changed. The font size is so small that my aging eyes cannot read it without fogging the screen with my breath. Some folders are out of alphabetical order (where I know they were previously good), and some are missing altogether (folders to which I frequently add references).
As for missing or deranged files or folders, was there something that I should have done or now need to do to recover those after the upgrade (or before)?
With regard to font size,
1. there is no “Edit Bookmarks” or like option to edit the list in this version
2. the “zoom” option in the “view” list of functions is greyed out when in “Show All Bookmarks” window
3. expanding the browser window has no effect on font size
4. “Preferences” settings for font size has no effect in that window either, including advanced settings
5. “Help” offers none that I can find.
Can any of you Help?!?

Maybe this extension helps:
*Theme Font & Size Changer: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/

My MacBook Pro was stolen last night. I need the serial number. It is not showing up on my devices list. My iPads and iPhones are. I have used it to to sync my phones and pads as well having it registered with apple. Any thoughts? Thanks

My MacBook Pro was stolen last night. I need the serial number. It is not showing up on my devices list. My iPads and iPhones are. I have used it to to sync my phones and pads as well having it registered with apple. Any thoughts? Thanks

Click here: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
SIgn in with your Apple ID, the same one you used to access this support forum.
Hopefully, you will see a list of all the devices you registered with your Apple ID, including their serial numbers. Let me know how this works out.
Edit to add: If you enabled "find my imac" on your Pro, you ought to be able to remotely lock it, or even wipe its memory. Click http://www.icloud.com/ sign in with your Apple ID and click the big green "find my iPhone" icon (nevermind the name, it will find all your devices provided they're running Lion or iOS 5).
Then file a police report and nail the b*****d.

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