>I'm trying to figure out what may be involved in creating a project that >uses Russian fonts. The user (American) should be able to not only read in >Russian but to be able to type in it.
Hi Irena-- I think Tab's suggestion of embedding a Russian font is a good idea. I'm not sure you will be able to type in Russian, though, without a Russian keyboard, and maybe a Russian system. It's worth a try, though. The Cyrillic alphabet uses a different encoding from English. On Windows, we use the ISO 8859 standard--for English, and most other Western European languages, that's 8859.1, or Latin-1. Russian uses a different subset, 8859.5. The character set from 0-127 is the same as 8859.1, but 128-255 are entirely different (not surprisingly, Cyrillic). So, for input, you need a keyboard that will send characters in that range. This is true, by the way, of all the ISO 8859 character sets. There's also a code page issue. Director used to deal with different code pages well, but that changed with 7.0. I think they have improved it since, but I'm not sure how solid it is now. Latin-1 uses code page 1252, and Cyrillic uses 1251. You might be able to find a Cyrillic font that uses code page 1252, though. It's something you'll need to ask about when you go font shopping. I wish I could be more help. Say hi to Kurt, Carl, Doug, and Kim for me! Cordially, Kerry Thompson [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/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!]
