hi michael,
I've cross-checked this myself with the free windows-1250 font "XSerif
CE"
(http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/stud/l1/zxmld13/slovo/Download/xserce.zip),
and it worked for me, numtochar(165) is displayed as CAPITAL LETTER A
WITH OGONEK. So I guess your problem is specific to your font file?
Maybe it's actually ISO 8859-2 encoded (which has almost the same
characters as windows-1250, but at rearranged positions)?
some maybe trivial tip:
with lingo like
s=""
repeat with i = 32 to 255
put i&" "&numtochar(i)&RETURN after s
end repeat
member("test").text=s
you get a complete table of the font that's assigned to member("test")
and can compare it with the various encoding tables you can find e.g. at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding
(following the links under "Popular character encodings" at end of page)
cheers,
valentin
Michael von Aichberger 2 wrote:
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
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