Font is garbled only in Pop-Up Menu mode: Is this a bug?

[alexliz]

I have a field formatted so that it picks values from a value list. The system is built on FMPA9 on MacOS X 10.5.2 International with Greek enabled. All is well except...

When I format the field to be a pop-up menu (as opposed to, say, a drop-down list), and then I click on it to expand the menu so I can pick a value from it, all values in the list show in the wrong font, gibberish-like. If I go ahead and actually do select a value, then the pop-up menu goes away and the selected value sure enough shows up in its proper greek capable font.

But this behavior renders the Pop-up menu option pretty much useless to me. I have to only use Drop-down list, instead.

How can I fix it? Or is it a bug and can't be fixed? Many thanks, people.

[comment]

It's been that way since ages: the popup menu is hard-wired to a system font with no Unicode support.

Perhaps this might suit you:

http://www.winsoft.eu/products_solutions/filemaker-pro9ce.php

[alexliz]

Hmmm, strange...

Is there no .plist file that I can go into and change that? Seems weird to lock the font and make it impossible to use it in some languages unless you buy a separate product.

[comment]

I'm afraid I didn't put it too well: the problem is not with the font (you CAN change that in the field's formatting), but with the behavior (font-script?) attached to the popup. I am not familiar enough with the technical details, but I don't think there's much you can do about it. You could try changing the field's font to Symbol, but IIRC that's not a satisfactory solution for "real" Greek.

And no, I don't think it's weird - I think it's outrageous.