> I'm trying to display french, german and greek characters in > the same director field and the application has to play in > Windows and Mac. I have the text in Microsoft Word(Windows) > and it looks fine(using the Arial Unicode font), but when i > import it in Director it's giving me problems. I haven't > tried to embed a font able to display all the characters at > the same time. Is there anyone knowing a solution for this? > (I'm using an English system(Win2000, Director 8.5) but i've > tried in Greek system and the problem remains).
Hi Takis, First of all, Director doesn't support Unicode. You'll need to use standard ANSI and Mac fonts. A little background on fonts. The International Standards Organization has published standards for several character sets in its 8859 standard. There are ten sets--8859.1 is Latin-1, used for most Western European Languages, and corresponds with Windows' ANSI character set. 8859.5 defines the Cyrillic character set, 8859.6 is for Arabic, and 8859.7 is used for Greek--bingo!. You should have no problems with French and German, because they use the same encoding, and the same code page, as English. The problem you'll run into is that Greek fonts usually use code page 1253, and if you're running on an English system, you're using code page 1252. That means that, effectively, Director won't "see" the Greek characters. The best solution I've found is to get a Greek font for code page 1252. They are available, or you could use something like Fontographer to create your own. Hope this helps. Cordially, Kerry Thompson [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!]
