can't use turkish letters with Finale 2010b on iMac!!!

[tolgatavis]

Please help!!!

I am using a desktop (iMac with OSX 10.8.4.) OSX is fully turkish and there are a lot of turkish fonts installed.
But when i use Finale 2010b (Registered) i can't write turkish lyrics (there are some specific turkish letters)
I also composed lots of vocal music with turkish lyrics (with same finale and imac before formatting) but Finale 2010 still can't read
turkish letters...

I clicked plug-ins>miscancellous>changefont but there is no turkish fonts in the list.....

PLEASE HELP! I AM DESPERATE !!!!!

[miker]

Finale 2010 is not Unicode compliant. All you can do is look for a font that has your special characters in the first 255 slots, that the Mac can recognize.

Your alternatives are to upgrade to 2012, which will (finally) use Unicode, or use a font editing program to put the characters you need into slots in the font where you can use them.

[tolgatavis]

what do you mean by "first 255 slots" ?
the funny thing is i used this computer, this Mac OSX system and this finale for 3 years with no problem!
all i wrote is with this setup. I formatted my desktop and this happened. I can't remember how i solved this problem 3 years ago.
I also try font editing program now...

[miker]

Think of a large grid. Mac fonts use the first 255 slots in a grid. Unicode fonts might use thousands of of slots. I can't explain why you were able to do this before, unless you had a Turkish font that was set up correctly. Is it possible that you downloaded a special font, sometime in the past?

[tolgatavis]

ok, now i will try all the fonts in finale. there is nothing wrong with macosx. every letter seems to work fine in general but finale...
my problem is, i can't see my previously written lyrics in correct turkish letters, so even if i find a new font or edit one i won't be able to fix my old .mus files... here is a screenshot!

[tolgatavis]

oops, size limit is 100 kb???

[miker]

It isn't a question with the OS. It's the fault of Finale. That's why I don't understand why you were able to do it, before.

What OS were you using when you were entering the characters?

[tolgatavis]

pretty sure after 10.8 . i left for summer vacation and when i turned back there was an electricity problem with the desktop (don't know how) and unfortunately i formatted it (i had backups)....

[miker]

Can you send me one of your OLD files, that worked before the reformat?

Send it to wawoodman at aol dot com

[tolgatavis]

I just sent now, can you check please?

[tolgatavis]

I also send the PDF file with correct letters typed... incase you need to see... at the first page with the first choral measure you can see the difference...

[tolgatavis]

Can you send me one of your OLD files, that worked before the reformat?

Send it to wawoodman at aol dot com

hi! did you receive my mus and PDF file? i am not sure i typed the correct e-mail address...

[miker]

I opened the PDF in a program called PDF to Music Pro. That showed the font correctly, and identified it as TimesNewRoman PSMT. I looked that up, and it looks like it was an older font. So I downloaded it, and installed it on my system. Even with the turkish keyboard, I can't get it to enter in finale 2010. It works fine in 2012, though.

I think you might want to contact MM tech support. Maybe they can figure out how you did it in 2010.

[tolgatavis]

ok, i will try... there are hours of music so i must restore them all... anyway thanks for your concern...