On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 08:54 AM, John Hudson wrote:
> Actually, this isn't nonsense. A single buggy font is quite capable of
> crashing an operating system. Obviously the damage is not permanent,
> presuming one is able to get the system started in safe mode and remove
> the offending font. I've seen some spectacularly nasty fonts over the
> years, as have many of my colleagues (including engineers in the type
> group at Apple, so this isn't simply a Windows issue).
>
C'est vrai. One of the fonts we used to print Unicode 2.0 killed *all*
text display on the system if it were to be used with ATSUI. It was kind
of cool, actually. We actually have a "font zoo" stashed away full of
pathological fonts which have been known to do all kinds of interesting
things if someone should be foolish enough to install them.
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John H. Jenkins
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jenkins@mac.com
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