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Re: System font

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Subject: Re: System font
From: Chris Little <cslittle at mac dot com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:30:24 -0400
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Thread-topic: System font
on 10/31/05 3:55 PM, Terry Ford at tmford at shaw dot ca wrote:

> 
> On 31-Oct-05, at 7:13 AM, Eric Richards wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> What is the System font?
>>> Windows => ?
>>> Mac => ?
>>> Linx => ?
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I do belive its what ever the user has set the OS  to use, or if
>> not set by the
>> user, its the default font. Basically its what ever the OS is using
>> for the font.
>> 
>> On OS 9 its charcoal(default), not sure about OS 10, Windows or Linx.
> 
> On OSX it's Lucida Grande and on XP it's Tahoma according to my last
> visit to the MSD.
> 
> For Linux, I have no idea either as I don't use it.
> 

The Windows system font defaults to Tahoma for Windows 2000 and XP but RB
uses MS Sans Serif.  A real pain since MS Sans Serif is missing a number of
the ISOLatin1 characters.

Chris


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