For some unknown reason, on OS X 10.9, I can reproduce the Omega bug with 
Stephan's  QT4/cocoa build but not with the QT5/cocoa one...

benjamin

On 03 Mar 2014, at 21:48 , Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> 
>> Benjamin Piwowarski wrote:
>>> with the latest build that Stephan sent me (qt4+cocoa), on OS X 10.9,
>>> 
>>> - glyphs bugs are still there (7954 and 8945) - I have no idea of the
>>> difficulty of solving those issues,
>> 
>> I suggest you first check whether the problem is with the workaround in
>> GuiPainter.cpp:355, which forces QT to display characters at 0x00ad. Maybe
>> this method fails for some reason with Cocoa.
> 
> I think this bug is understood. It is caused by a combination of our hackish 
> channeling of math symbols through wrong unicode code points and some code 
> in qt which is identified in http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7954#comment:11.
> 
> A safe workaround for now would be to remap the affected glyphs in cmr.ttf 
> (which we ship) and change the numeric value in lib/symbols. Actually I 
> wonder why I did not realize before that we ship the affected fronts, since 
> I did such remapping for other fonts already. I can do that if you want.
> 
> 
> Georg

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