Hi I read your posting in Director-L and I need some help.Hi Jonas,
1) How can I import (through copy-paste) some greek text which I have in Word ? IT looks fine but when I paste it into a greek font in Director it comes out all twisted and turned.
I think the posting was on Lingo-L (not that it matters) ^_^
Anyway, I'm sending a copy of this to Lingo-L in case other people are having the same (or similar) problem.
I'm making a couple of assumptions. (1) You are running on an English system (Windows?), (2) You are using a relatively recent version of director, i.e. 7.0 or later, and (3) it is a "true" Greek font--that is, it uses code page 1253.
If that's right, the problem is the code page. Basically, Director looks at the code page to determine how to use upper ANSI characters.
Step back a second. ASCII characters, the lower 128 characters, are pretty much the same for any character set--Greek, English, Turkish, even Hebrew.
ANSI is a superset of ASCII. It contains all 128 ASCII characters, plus another 128. Those extra 128 characters all have a code value over 127--i.e., the high bit is set.--and that is where most language-specific characters are stored. In ANSI, those characters are mostly characters for Western European languages, like umlauted German characters.
ANSI is pretty much the same as another international standard, ISO 8859.1. ISO 8859 defines 10 different character sets: 8859.1 is Latin 1, or Western European, and corresponds with ANSI. Greek is defined in ISO 8859.7.
Now, back to your question. Your font's Greek characters are probably located on code page 1253, but you're running on code page 1252 (most Western European systems). Your font likely has ISO 8859.1 characters in the code page 1252 slot, if anything, so it's coming out jumbled.
Now, something to try:
1. Embed the font
2. Copy and paste the Greek text into a text cast member
3. Select all the text and apply the Greek font.
If it still comes out garbage, then you'll probably need to find a Greek system. Boot into Greek, run Director, and do the above. Your text should be fine.
2) I have someone who will do a translation into greek of lots of english text. Does he have to use the symbol font in Director, if he will write on a text cast member directly ? And will this font be correspondent to the keyboard ?No, don't use the Symbol font. It doesn't contain the entire Greek alphabet, and will not correspond to a Greek keyboard.
Hope this helps.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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