Font of field won't change

[larryh]

Me again : )

I have a multiline field with text in it. I am trying to change the font on it to a different font but no matter what I do, the font remains the same. If I use the property inspector or message command line box, a change in font still retains the old font. I imagine this has to do with the custom property shown below.

I populate this field using:

put field "Gloss" & uniEncode(comma & space) & field "Vernacular" & \
uniEncode(comma & space) & UniEncode(id of this card) into tEnglishCardName

set the EnglishCardName of this card to tEnglishCardName --THIS IS ALREADY IN UTF16

put the EnglishCardName of this card & UniEncode(return) into line (the number of this card) of fld "listEnglish"

Thanks,

Larry

[Mark]

Hi Larry,

Unicode text often doesn't adhere to the owner's font. Instead, try this.

First, you need to build the complete index in unicode. You can't put unicodeText into a field. You can only set the unicodeText property. Once you have built the complete index, you can set the unicodeText to a variable, e.g. myUCIndex

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set the unicodeText of fld "listEnglish" to myUCIndex
set the textFont of char 1 to -1 of fld "listEnglish" to "ValidFont,UTF16"

Note that ValidFont needs to be a font with the necessary glyphs. Otherwise, you may see a lot of meaningless symbols, usually Chinese glyphs. You may need to replace UTF16 with a different value, but I think it will work for you.

Best,

Mark

[larryh]

Cool, that works! Thank you