I don't know whether this is a problem with NetSurf, RISC OS 4 or with VRPC; any advice from you wise people would be appreciated.
On this Iyonix I have two Unicode fonts, the usual Cyberbit and an Amharic font called Abyssinica. As expected, these behave perfectly, and I can see a great may exotic characters, as few of which I can actually understand. Following the posting on The Iconbar about getting Unicode fonts working on RISC OS 4.** (1) I tried to get this working on RISC OS 4.02 on VRPC SE on a Windows XP SP3 laptop. The advice on the Iconbar posting needs a bit of tweaking for 4.02, but I seemed to be initially successful. However, when NetSurf ran and looked at the new fonts, it fell over when it came to Cyberbit, saying "The Unicode font manager has failed to initialise", or words to that effect; as it failed to run fully there is no logfile. I then took Cyberbit out of Resources.Fonts, and ran NetSurf again. This time it ran fully, and I was able to view pages in Amharic with the Abyssinica font. Any idea why this NetSurf doesn't like Cyberbit? Is it a memory problem? (Cyberbit weighs in at, IIRC, 21M). It's not a very big deal for me; when I have the Windows machine running I tend to use Windows Firefox, as it's a great deal faster than NetSurf on VRPC; on the Iyonix, NetSurf is a great deal quicker than Windows Firefox, so I tend to go with horses for courses. However, as I'm always curious about how things work, in a very non-technical way, I wonder if there's an easy explanation, and also wonder if I should put in a bug report, if it is indeed a NetSurf problem. (1) http://www.iconbar.com/articles/Getting_Unicode_Working_With_RISC_ OS_4_and_6/index1267.html TIA, With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter \ / zfc Lu \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 and \/ __ __ \ England. family / / \ | | |\ | / _ \ http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk / \__/ \_/ | \| \__/ \______________ pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
