July 26, 200817 yr 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.
July 26, 200817 yr 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
July 27, 200817 yr Author 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.
July 27, 200817 yr 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.
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