Aki, Many thanks for the reply. Taking your suggestion, I found three possible routes to rewriting the function (given below). All seem to work.
One uses NSFontManager and NSFont: NSArray *fontNames = [[NSFontManager sharedFontManager] availableFonts]; for (NSString *fontName in fontNames) { NSFont *f = [NSFont fontWithName:fontName size:0.0]; if ([[f coveredCharacterSet] isSupersetOfSet:cset]) { [result addObject:f]; } } The second uses NSFontDescriptor and NSFont: NSArray *fonts = [[NSFontDescriptor fontDescriptorWithFontAttributes:nil] matchingFontDescriptorsWithMandatoryKeys:nil]; for (NSFontDescriptor *fd in fonts) { NSFont *f = [NSFont fontWithDescriptor:fd size:0.0]; if ([[f coveredCharacterSet] isSupersetOfSet:cset]) { [result addObject:f]; } } The third uses NSFontManager and NSFontDescriptor, and I think is the closest to what you suggested: NSArray *fontNames = [[NSFontManager sharedFontManager] availableFonts]; for (NSString *fontName in fontNames) { NSFontDescriptor *fd = [NSFontDescriptor fontDescriptorWithName:fontName size:0.0]; NSCharacterSet *s = [fd objectForKey:NSFontCharacterSetAttribute]; if ([s isSupersetOfSet:cset]) { [result addObject:fd]; } } Is any to be preferred over the others? I note that the first one and third find extra fonts: "AquaKana", "AquaKana-Bold", ".Keyboard", "LastResort", and sometimes others, depending on the system. Note as well that in the third, if I replace NSCharacterSet *s = [fd objectForKey:NSFontCharacterSetAttribute]; by NSCharacterSet *s = [[fd fontAttributes] objectForKey:NSFontCharacterSetAttribute]; then s is NULL. Why? And as a final note, passing "0123456789" to my original function does indeed return a non-zero result. In fact, my original function seems to return exactly the same results as the second function above (except in the special cases I mentioned in my first post). Very curious. Any idea why? Should I still file a bug report as you suggested? Brian _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com