Hi list, I need to display region-specific characters of a given typeface in a director-movie. As Director - unfortunately - is not Unicode-aware, I bought 4 ttf-fonts of the same typeface. One for codepage 1252 (western europe), one for 1250 (central europe), one for codepage 1251 (cyrillic) and finally one for codepage 1253 (greek).
My guess was that if I wanted to display let's say the polish letter "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH OGONEK", (Unicode 260), I just had to look that up in a table for codepage 1250, find out that it's ANSI 165 there, make a text member in Director, apply the central european version of my font to that text member, assign numtochar(165) as the text of the member and could expect to see the A with ogonek. This procedure worked well for the cyrillic letters and also for the greek ones, but it failed for the central european ones. I cross-checked with the central european version of another typeface, but got the same results: Director gives me the letters of codepage 1252 (western europe) as far as they are available in the central european version, otherwise it gives me nothing. So here's my question: How can I use fonts for other codepages in Director on a system set to codepage 1252? Has anybody done this before and could help me with this issue? Thanks in advance! Michael [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [email protected] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
