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Text in the SQL 2005 editor disappears when using the Monaco font and a non-alphanumeric character

  • December 1, 2005 at 9:26 am

    #166174

    First let me say that I’m not certain if this is the correct forum for this type of question or not and if it isn’t then I apologize and would appreciate any suggestions as to which forum would be the better candidate for this question.

     

    I am using a font called Monaco. It’s very similar to Comic Sans and it’s a TrueType font that is Mono-Spaced.   This enables me to get a Comic Sans like look in all of my editors and still get everything to align correctly.  I personally like the Comic Sans look because I feel that it combined with a ‘Post It Note’ like yellow color is more soothing on the eyes especially when you are in front of a computer all day.  Any way since I setup the Monaco font I am seeing some very odd reactions by the SQL 2005 Editor.  If I type the following everything looks fine:

     

    SELECT Table.Column

    FROM TABLE

     

    But as soon as I add any of the following characters: (,),%.!.:.; the entire query disappears.  It doesn’t get deleted or go away it’s just not visible.  It’s likes as if the entire query took on a font color equal to the backgrounds color.  I have verified that the query is still there by highlighting the entire editor, copying and pasting the results into the text editor I use; UltraEdit.  When I do that I see the entire query including the characters that cause the disappearing act.  So if I enter the same query above and then add a ‘(‘ character like this:

     

    SELECT Table.Column (

    FROM TABLE

     

    The entire query disappears.  Now if I backspace and remove the ‘(‘ character then the query reappears.  I have tested this on 2 different systems; 1 running the September 2005 CTP and another running the RTM version of 2005 and I get the same results in both environments.

     

    I have tested the font in my text editor (UltraEdit) as well as in Notepad and Word and only the SQL 2005 editor does this.  I also have browsed the fonts list of characters using a font manager program that comes with Corel Draw and the font does have a visible representation for these characters like ‘(‘.  I don’t understand why only the SQL 2005 editor is freaking out by the non-alphanumeric characters of the Monaco font.  I have also switched the font the editor uses to Comic Sans and a few other fonts and only the Monaco font causes this problem.  I even tested the font in Query Analyzer with SQL 2000 and QA had no problem with the font.

     

    I have tried searching the net but with no useful hits.  Does anyone have any idea what may be going on here or have you heard of any funky behaviors by the SQL 2005 editor?  I really love using the editor and I also really don’t want to give up the Monaco font because there is no other Comic Sans like font that is a TrueType Mono-spaced font that I know of.  Because of those 2 things I want to do whatever it takes to get this resolved. 

     

    Thanks

    Ed

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  • December 5, 2005 at 8:00 am

    This was removed by the editor as SPAM

  • December 5, 2005 at 8:49 am

    #607725

    Anyone know if there is a way to report this to Microsoft as a possible bug?

     

    Thanks

    Ed

     

     

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