Hi,
Tacvek wrote:
Ronald Lamprecht wrote:
@Daniel: AFAIK our current font does not support cyrillic characters.
How should we support them?
Frankly, I don't know... Are there any any free cyrillic truetype fonts
that we could distribute with Enigma? A quick google search did not turn
up anything.
There are several sources for cyrillic ttf fonts:
http://www.freelang.net/fonts/index.html
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/russian.html
As a first experiment I took
http://www.freelang.com/download/fonts/ttf_russe_kurierkoi8.zip as it
has a licence that allows to modify the font. Thus I copied the cyrillic
characters to dustismo_bold.ttf and added the corresponding unicode
mappings.
The result can be viewed with r169 - as a fixed pitch font that is not
bold the characters do not fit very well and many translations strings
are too long. But it shows that we have no problem in supporting
cyrillic languages.
There is a GPL'ed font called ttf-thyromanes that can be found in
debian, and it includes cyrillic (in addition to latin, greek, and IPA).
The font has no hinting or kerning, which is a downside especially for
small font sizes.
It has bold, italic, and bold-italic variations.
I have not seen it, so I have no idea how well it matches the current font.
Apparently it is serif, and according to the author it
"includes all the Roman-alphabet characters available in Unicode, along
with a subset of the most commonly used Greek and Cyrillic characters."
Hopefully that means that only very obsure characters that Enigma would
never need are missing from the cyrillic.
@Daniel: Please have a look at the different available fonts and decide
which font, or which mix we should use in future.
@Sergej: I copied a Windows version of r169 to
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/enigma-game/Enigma-w32-r169.zip - please check
that your translations are readable as far as they are displayed. I may
have made mistakes on mapping the cyrillic characters to the right
unicode coding points.
- Ronald
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