as I've written before, my first guess would be that they might be ISO
8859-2 encoded (see table at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-2).
if yes, no reason to throw away those fonts you've already bought, you
just have to encode your text differently, and there are tools which
help you reencoding text from one charset to another, one of them would
be my Unicode Class which has a method
strToStr (me, str, charsetFrom, charsetTo)
cheers,
valentin
Michael von Aichberger 2 wrote:
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
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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
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