Different fonts ?

RedStar

RedStar

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2007

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I was playing and while pm'ing someone I noticed something :



He used a different font from one PM to an other. At first I thought "maybe he's from an Asian country, so maybe because of the characters they have a different font when writing latin characters". But the first one had the normal font. So what is the cause ?

(Yes it's a rather silly question, but I'm intrigued xD

Olle

Olle

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Aug 2008

Ign: Miniature Julia

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some letters can be copied into gw chat, my guess is that he wrote it in word, copy&paste
to seem cool.

Zaph

Zaph

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2008

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Maybe that person copy-pasted from word, but more likely he has some Asian Language enabled in Control Panel / Text & Language Settings.

My friend uses same font when his language is set to Simplified Chinese, and normal when he turns back language to English. However, I was unable (probably due to my lack of knowledge..) to turn it on and use it when I set Simplified Chinese as default language..

Sierraa

Sierraa

Supastar~ ???

Join Date: May 2006

USA [GMT -7]

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Having a different language keyboard will generally do that in GW. When I used to have my Japanese keyboard if I left it on and typed in english it would make it look weird. :p

Araiia

Araiia

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2009

USA

Yeah. I'm not sure why it happens, but if you type in english after typing asian characters, your text may change fonts. It happens outside of GW too. It probably isn't copy-pasted.

Mashiyu

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2010

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I played Guildwars on an Asian notebook - it was rather annoying, because the target-call [Ctrl]+[Space] also switches between the keyboard layouts. And yes, GW uses an other font for text written with chinese input support.

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Ah okay, thank you all for you answers ^^.