In macOS 14, NSAttributedString.Key.verticalGlyphForm has been deprecated. This key was previously used for rendering text vertically, particularly in languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. I'm curious about the reasons behind its deprecation and would appreciate insights into alternative methods for displaying vertical text.

Dear experts, I get glyphs from the system font using CTFontGetGlyphsForCharacters, something like this: UIFont* uifont = [UIFont monospacedDigitSystemFontOfSize: s weight: w]; CTFontRef font = (__bridge CTFontRef)uifont; CTFontGetGlyphsForCharacters(font, ....); The characters that I ask for are basically latin-1 plus a few others. The app is not localised for Chinese. When I change the phone's default language to Chinese, this code gets glyphs for most characters OK but it fails for a few punctuation symbols: 91 = [ 93 = ] 183 = middle dot 8220 = left double curly quote 8221 = right double curly quote Can anyone guess what's going on here? What's special about those characters? Thanks, Phil.

I have a Mac app, Notenik, written with AppKit, that dynamically generates an Edit view that is used to edit multiple fields for a Note. Sometimes, depending on a user's request, multiple NSTextViews end up appearing within the same parent view (a tab, if that matters). Lately I and some of my users have noticed that, when moving from one NSTextView to another (either by tabbing or by clicking), the cursor initially fails to appear. Once the user starts editing within the NSTextView, the cursor appears and acts normally. And this doesn't occur when moving from an ordinary text field to an NSTextView -- only when moving from one NSTextView to another. But it is troubling and confusing to users that the cursor initially disappears. I'm not sure exactly when this started happening, but it has not been happening for very long. Although I make frequent updates to the app, this section of code has had no recent changes, so I am at a loss to explain this behavior, or to correct it. Any help would be appreciated.