[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-10-11 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- pull_requests: +3937 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mai

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-20 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I decided to rearrange page #24776 before changing sample #13802. -- dependencies: +IDLE: Improve config dialog font change user interface ___ Python tracker __

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-15 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > Serhiy, is there one non-controversial pan-slavic way to write 'Cyrillic' in > Cyrillic? No. Even in very close east-slavic languages it is written differently: Ukrainian "Кирилиця", Russian "Кириллица", Belarusian "Кірыліца". --

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-15 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I made this issue a dependency of #24776, which is about redoing the whole font page. The fontchooser has good, inappropriate for IDLE, and bad points. I consider it an alternate mockup proposal for the font page. For this issue: displaying each font name i

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-07 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: On other hand, we can use the standard font chooser dialog. But it doesn't allow to configure the sample text at all (at least on X Window). Terry, try please the following commands on Windows: import tkinter root = tkinter.Tk() root.tk.call('tk', 'fontchoos

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-07 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I don't think that it is worth to include in Python distribution examples for a hundred of languages. If there are some system-wide collections of examples we can use them, but this should be platform specific and not always available. -- __

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-07 Thread Louie Lu
Louie Lu added the comment: Serhiy: Or would it be to detect the user language environment, and come up with user language example sentence? What I remember that Windows font preview will change the sentence in the different language. -- ___ Python

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-07 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: There are many different alphabets in the world. Why Chines but not Cyrillic or Devanagari? An example that includes all scripts would be too large (and likely most characters would not be rendered correctly with an arbitrary font). I suggest just make the b

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-07 Thread Louie Lu
Louie Lu added the comment: Add the string with pangram and chinese, now sample text shows: AaBbCcDdEe FfGgHhIiJjK 1234567890 #:+=(){}[] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. [1] 南去經三國，東來過五湖 [2] -- [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-07-07 Thread Louie Lu
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[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2017-06-29 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- assignee: -> terry.reedy stage: needs patch -> patch review versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7 -Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker _

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2013-06-15 Thread Terry J. Reedy
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[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2013-03-25 Thread Todd Rovito
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[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2013-03-23 Thread Todd Rovito
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[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2013-03-23 Thread Francisco Martín Brugué
Francisco Martín Brugué added the comment: Hi Terry, just take/put away some ... (they're not in a special order nor preference, just some that could 'see' in the browser). -- keywords: +patch nosy: +francismb Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29553/issue13802.patch __

[issue13802] IDLE Prefernces/Fonts: use multiple alphabets in examples

2012-01-16 Thread Terry J. Reedy
New submission from Terry J. Reedy : In the Fonts/Tabs tab of the IDLE Preference dialog, the large box for examples of the font selected shows a small square of ascii chars. I think the box should also show 1 char for each of several alphabets so the consequence of choosing various fonts will