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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 1

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe. 😉 How long do you think we can keep this up before someone gets annoyed at us? Obfuscation is my life.
[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]I think they are just ignoring it
[/font] :hehe:

[font="Wingdings"]Clearly, some of you need more to do at work. Shouldn't you be off answering questions or something? 🙂

Fortunately, it all translates easily enough if you just click "Quote"[/font]

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 2

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe. 😉 How long do you think we can keep this up before someone gets annoyed at us? Obfuscation is my life.
[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]I think they are just ignoring it
[/font] :hehe:
[font="Wingdings"]Clearly, some of you need more to do at work. Shouldn't you be off answering questions or something? 🙂
Fortunately, it all translates easily enough if you just click "Quote"[/font]

[font="Wingdings"]It's almost lunch time on a Friday, I'm hungry, and I'm waiting on someone to send me a description of the columns in a txt file that I need to import. My motivation for beginning new tasks that do not involve gustation is low.[/font]

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 3

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe. 😉 How long do you think we can keep this up before someone gets annoyed at us? Obfuscation is my life.
[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]I think they are just ignoring it
[/font] :hehe:
[font="Wingdings"]Clearly, some of you need more to do at work. Shouldn't you be off answering questions or something? 🙂
Fortunately, it all translates easily enough if you just click "Quote"[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]It's almost lunch time on a Friday, I'm hungry, and I'm waiting on someone to send me a description of the columns in a txt file that I need to import. My motivation for beginning new tasks that do not involve gustation is low.[/font]

Odd that last one auto-translated for me in the browser

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 4

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe. 😉 How long do you think we can keep this up before someone gets annoyed at us? Obfuscation is my life.
[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]I think they are just ignoring it
[/font] :hehe:
[font="Wingdings"]Clearly, some of you need more to do at work. Shouldn't you be off answering questions or something? 🙂
Fortunately, it all translates easily enough if you just click "Quote"[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]It's almost lunch time on a Friday, I'm hungry, and I'm waiting on someone to send me a description of the columns in a txt file that I need to import. My motivation for beginning new tasks that do not involve gustation is low.[/font]
Odd that last one auto-translated for me in the browser

They are all in plain english for me. Weird. As I quote I can see the font tags.

I have firefox and they all display just fine, although the font size is smaller than normal.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 5

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe. 😉 How long do you think we can keep this up before someone gets annoyed at us? Obfuscation is my life.
[/font]
[font="Wingdings"] It's not really annoying as long as you have a notepad open.
The dropdown list on SSMS won't show Wingdings or any other symbol's font[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Or you can just hit the "quote" button and read it. 😀 But Wingdings shows up in my dropdown list as a valid font. This may be a question for Steve.[/font]

[font="Wingdings"]Are you talking about SSC or SSMS?[/font]

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 6

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe. 😉 How long do you think we can keep this up before someone gets annoyed at us? Obfuscation is my life.
[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]I think they are just ignoring it
[/font] :hehe:
[font="Wingdings"]Clearly, some of you need more to do at work. Shouldn't you be off answering questions or something? 🙂
Fortunately, it all translates easily enough if you just click "Quote"[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]It's almost lunch time on a Friday, I'm hungry, and I'm waiting on someone to send me a description of the columns in a txt file that I need to import. My motivation for beginning new tasks that do not involve gustation is low.[/font]
Odd that last one auto-translated for me in the browser
They are all in plain english for me. Weird. As I quote I can see the font tags.
I have firefox and they all display just fine, although the font size is smaller than normal.

It seems like a firefox related issue as I can reproduce it on firefox, but it shows the correct font on IE and Chrome

Luis C.
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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50118 More actions · Answer 7

[font="Wingdings"]While you can do WingDings on the forum pages, some of us don't have it as an installed font and so can't set up SSMS to use it...

So nyeah![/font]

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 8

jasona.work (11/1/2013)
[font="Wingdings"]While you can do WingDings on the forum pages, some of us don't have it as an installed font and so can't set up SSMS to use it...
So nyeah![/font]

[font="Wingdings"]that might be a minor issue when doing presentations then[/font]

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 9

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]

[font="webdings"]On my machine there are 5 fonts with names beginning Y. They are the last fonts in the dropdown, which lists in alphabetic order. I thought the dropdown listed all fonts installed on the machine, but on checking I find it doesn't - maybe SSMS (in SQL 2012) permits only opentype layout fonts?[/font]

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 10

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe. 😉 How long do you think we can keep this up before someone gets annoyed at us? Obfuscation is my life.
[/font]
[font="wingdings"]I suspect they can't see it; of course if they try a quoted reply they will see the font tags, but if they don't they will see whatever the default fon is.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]I think they are just ignoring it
[/font] :hehe:

Or just not seeing it?

Tom

Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 11

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="webdings"]On my machine there are 5 fonts with names beginning Y. They are the last fonts in the dropdown, which lists in alphabetic order. I thought the dropdown listed all fonts installed on the machine, but on checking I find it doesn't - maybe SSMS (in SQL 2012) permits only opentype layout fonts?[/font]

It doesn't show them all in SSMS 2008 either, but I don't think I'm going to lose any sleep over not having them.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 12

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[font="Wingdings"]It should be the last font on the dropdown, Luis.[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]How sure are you about that?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Pretty sure, I don't think there is but one interface. Or are they language specific?[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe there is a locale difference. The south v. the North. 😉 [/font]
[font="Wingdings"]Maybe. 😉 How long do you think we can keep this up before someone gets annoyed at us? Obfuscation is my life.
[/font]
I have 3 installed wingdings fonts (wingdings regular, wingdings 2, wingdings 3) and also webdings, but none show up in SSMS. I'm pretty sure such fonts used to show up in SSMS in SQL 2008 and 2008 R2. Of course it could be an OS difference - I'm running win 8.1 now, I was running XP Pro back when I could see wingdings in SSMS.
[font="Wingdings"]I think they are just ignoring it
[/font] :hehe:
[font="Wingdings"]Clearly, some of you need more to do at work. Shouldn't you be off answering questions or something? 🙂
Fortunately, it all translates easily enough if you just click "Quote"[/font]
[font="Wingdings"]It's almost lunch time on a Friday, I'm hungry, and I'm waiting on someone to send me a description of the columns in a txt file that I need to import. My motivation for beginning new tasks that do not involve gustation is low.[/font]
Odd that last one auto-translated for me in the browser
They are all in plain english for me. Weird. As I quote I can see the font tags.
I have firefox and they all display just fine, although the font size is smaller than normal.
It seems like a firefox related issue as I can reproduce it on firefox, but it shows the correct font on IE and Chrome

It's certainly a Firefox issue; but what I don't understand is why SSMS doesn't show the fonts. It isn't a font installation issue. I'm sure SSMS used to show all installed fonts when I was using SQL 2008 on WIn XP Pro; but now (SQL 2012, WIn 8.1) it doesn't.

Tom

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[font="Wingdings"]Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.[/font]

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 14

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[font="Wingdings"]Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.[/font]

Aren't you getting too far with this? 😀

Luis C.
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Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 15

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[font="Wingdings"]Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.[/font]
Aren't you getting too far with this? 😀

I just put that in there for Grant.

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