ehhh Posted September 18, 2004 Report Share Posted September 18, 2004 Why is it that I can only see an orange square in hand layouts? Where are the suit symbols? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted September 18, 2004 Report Share Posted September 18, 2004 This means that one of the fonts in windows is corrupted.drop a line to support@bridgebase.com and someone will send you the fonts and instructions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrolph Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 That'd be me! :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I think ehhh is referring to strange suit symbols in Forums posts, not BBO itself. My guess is that these symbols are the result of mistakes made by posters. I also sometimes see the orange squares instead of diamonds and my TrueType Symbol font is definitely ok. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 me too... happens often with diamonds, but not all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Tu Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 I too am seeing missing diamond symbols in posts. I did some investigation, and I think it boils down to the following two problems, which would require bulletin board configuration tweaks: 1. in response to the "[DI" tag (I omitted closing bracket), the board generator is generating &diams in the corresponding HTML code, rather than &diams which is much more standard. It is using the proper numbers for the other suits, e.g. &hearts for hearts. It could also use the mnenomic ♦ which should be recognized by current browsers. 2. The default fonts it is using, Verdana, also Tahoma second choice, don't have the right suit symbols, at least on Windows. It works better with Arial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 I know, I modified it because some people had problems with the standard symbol, but not with this one. See this post.You're right about Arial, now it is the first choice for suit symbols, via CSS, so retroactive.Actual symbol would not be, should I change it back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Tu Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 I think it should use 9830 since that is HTML 4.x std for diamonds. Default font should be Arial, Times New Roman, or Courier New, or similar ones that have proper suit symbols at the std locations. If the diamond seems too small (is that why you changed?), then maybe compensate with font size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 No, I did change because it seemed some people could see the other symbol better. Don't think one symbol one size, the others other should be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joueuer Posted October 29, 2004 Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 hmm, how about this??i only see questions marks in place of suit symbols in the BBO chat window, like a supposed spade or club symbol would turn up as a ?, and a ? for a heart or diamond. thankfully this only happens in the chat window, but not the bidding as well. still, i would like to know how to remedy this problem, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 29, 2004 Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 Sounds like your default font has been changed on your computer so that the symbols are missing.. Try this... Click on the little yellow "gear" icon. It is found on the bottom row of the program window. This is the one that calls up "options"... and is located immediately to the left of the icon with the two different ACES of SPADES. When the new window opens, go the "FONT" area and choose a different font (three are listed, arial, times new roman, and Verdana... then see if that fixes the problem. Please report back here if it did or didn't. Thanks, Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joueuer Posted October 30, 2004 Report Share Posted October 30, 2004 just tried that, but it did not help...could it be my font files are corrupted?? :P hope not... :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebound Posted October 31, 2004 Report Share Posted October 31, 2004 I just wanted to quickly add my voice to those who have pointed out that the diamond symbols on forum posts seem to have been replaced with orange squares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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