Re: Re: frontend problem: common characters automatically translated
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- Subject: [mg26088] Re: [mg26074] Re: frontend problem: common characters automatically translated
- From: Maarten.vanderBurgt at icos.be
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:55:33 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hallo, After reading http://support.wolfram.com/Systems/Windows/FE/FontsNotWorking.html I managed to correct this odd behaviour simply by pasting a few brackets ({}[]) from MSWord into a Mathematica notebook. As sudden as it appeared the problem had gone. I can work again now, but it still remains a mystery to me. Maarten Icos, Leuven "Paul Lutus" <nospam at nosite.com> on 22-11-2000 07:56:00 AM Subject: [mg26088] [mg26074] Re: frontend problem: common characters automatically translated <Maarten.vanderBurgt at icos.be> wrote in message news:8v06lk$4mf at smc.vnet.net... > Hallo, > > I have a strange Front End problem (Windos NT4). > When I type in {1,2,3} is gets automatically translated into :1,2,3<. > f[x_]:=x^2 becomes f at x_F:=x^2 and (a + b)/(c + d) becomes Ja + bN"Jc + dN. > It makes all in- and output lines in notebooks, helpfiles,.. unreadable. > I believe it started after looking into some notebooks on the Wolfram web > site or in MathSource. > > How can this happen and how can I get rid of this? You need to make sure the font your system is using contains the needed characters. From the symptom, it seems there is a conflict between the normal ASCII character set (or ordering) and the character set being used in your notebooks. Why not just copy these characters into Mathematica and see what happens: ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ The solution is to make sure none of the needed fonts have been overwritten. The easiest way to be reasonably sure this is true is to re-install Mathematica. -- Paul Lutus www.arachnoid.com