Hi Valentin, thanks for the link to the free font, I checked that too and yes, it works here too!
It seems that the 2 fonts I bought contain the central european characters but are coded in another manner, maybe unicode, maybe 4GL, I don't know. The problem seems to be that when you buy a font for Central Europe, you are not sure what kind of character coding you get. If anybody has a source for Central European fonts that are coded in the way described earlier in my posting, please let me know. And Valentin, thanks again for your reply! Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Valentin Schmidt Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 6:44 PM To: Lingo programming discussion list Subject: Re: <lingo-l> using different charsets of a font in a director movie 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 > > [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!] [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!] [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!]
