Bug with Alert Window text and embedded fonts in 5.3.1

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I’m quite sure that’s the same bug I reported last week and comes from removing a workaround for memory-based fonts. In my opinion this can currently only happen on OSX 10.11 and maybe 10.12. Older OSX versions still use the workaround and at least for me things work fine on 10.13. Are you also running 10.11?

Here’s the other thread where I shared a screenshot:

Slow TextLayout on OSX with memory-based fonts

Setting canAllTypefacesBeUsedInLayout (…) to return false fixes my issue, but I can’t do that without patching JUCE. My font does work correctly on OSX outside Juce and the same code/font does work on windows. My conclusion is that at least with my configuration the old workaround is still needed even on pure 10.11 and I would very much like to have a way to override the new behaviour with the old one as I have no issues with speed. Update: I tried running the same thing on 10.13 and there it…