Hannes Hirzel wrote:

Great, thank you for the quick answer! A thunderstorm this morning has just blown up our internet connection and I am writing this in a internet cafe. However I want to try this out ASAP.

You're welcome. I just posted another set of fixes for font rendering but there is one that I can't fix right now. Apparently, BitBlt got broken and no longer updates the text position after a primDisplayString call. This leads to problems if you use mixed font rendering. If you find that the spacing of certain characters seems to be completely wrong (like printed on top of each other) comment out the BitBlt primDisplayString primitive to see if that fixes it.

Cheers, - Andreas

Hannes

On 8/14/09, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:

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hannes.hirzel wrote:

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I use the updated Squeak3.10.2-trunk.image as of today.

603 asCharacter

gives the result as shown in the screenshot. Any suggestions?

The issue was caused by a method which didn't use the proper two-pass rendering for the new fonts. I've fixed this in the trunk (just update).

However, our new fonts only cover Latin-1 range so using non-latin characters with it won't work. In order to use non-latin characters you will have to find a suitable font.

You can do this by hitting Cmd-K (Alt-K) and go to the (equally new) "More (non-portable) Fonts..." section at the end of the font menu. This will offer you platform truetype fonts to use which hopefully have the coverage you are looking for.

Cheers,

• Andreas

Hi,

I just tried this on a Mac OS X with success:

TTFileDescription installFamilyNamed: 'Arial'. (StringHolder new contents: 'a' , (String with: 603 asCharacter with: 16r411 asCharacter)) openLabel: 'Some unicode'.

Then used CMD+SHIFT+K and selected Arial.

Nicolas

2010/3/27 Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel@gmail.com:

Hello

I really like the new look with the updated GUI elements and with a regular menu bar in Squeak 4.1alpha #9832

So I did a retest how Unicode characters are displayed.

Display Unicode symbols broken

I wanted to choose a font from the platform

Cmd-K (Alt-K) and go to the (equally new) "More (non-portable) Fonts..." entry

The choice for "More (non-portable) Fonts..." is not available.

Then I did   TTFileDescription installFamilyNamed: 'Arial'. as mentioned in the readme file.

The evaluation of  603 asCharacter

displays a box instead of a Latin Small Letter Open E

After switching to Russian with  Locale switchToID: (LocaleID isoLanguage: 'ru').

16r411 asCharacter

is displayed as a box as well. It should be the Cyrillic capital letter Be

Regards

Hannes

2010/3/29 Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel@gmail.com:

Thank you Nicolas for doing the test on a Mac,

I did a similar test again on MSWindows

32 to: 1000 do: [:code | Transcript show: (code printString , ' ', code asCharacter asString,' ')]

Then I selected the generated text in the Transcript and changed the font to a Unicode font and voila the Unicode symbols were there.

What I found out is that the problem lies at a different place

1. Open a Workspace
2. Right-Click on it and choose 'Set font'
3. Choose 'Arial'
4. Evaluate 16r411 asCharacter

-> A box appears 5) Select the expression and choose 'Arial' again. -> The Cyrillic capital letter Be appears

So the question is: How do I tell a Workspace to accept 'Arial' as its default font.

Hannes

Good question!

I've got an awfull snippet for raising the interactive menu:

(((StringHolder new contents: '0,02' , (String with: Character euro)) openLabel: 'Euro') findDeeplyA: TextMorphForEditView) selectAll editor changeTextFont

And another one to change the font directly:

(((StringHolder new contents: '0,02' , (String with: Character euro)) openLabel: 'Euro') findDeeplyA: TextMorphForEditView) fontName: 'Arial' pointSize: 12

Very fragile (highly dependent on implementation). But maybe Morphic experts will come with simpler code :)

Nicolas

On 3/28/10, Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi,

I just tried this on a Mac OS X with success:

TTFileDescription installFamilyNamed: 'Arial'. (StringHolder new contents: 'a' , (String with: 603 asCharacter with: 16r411 asCharacter)) openLabel: 'Some unicode'.

Then used CMD+SHIFT+K and selected Arial.

Nicolas

2010/3/27 Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel@gmail.com:

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Hello

I really like the new look with the updated GUI elements and with a regular menu bar in Squeak 4.1alpha #9832

So I did a retest how Unicode characters are displayed.

Display Unicode symbols broken

I wanted to choose a font from the platform

Cmd-K (Alt-K) and go to the (equally new) "More (non-portable) Fonts..." entry

The choice for "More (non-portable) Fonts..." is not available.

Then I did   TTFileDescription installFamilyNamed: 'Arial'. as mentioned in the readme file.

The evaluation of  603 asCharacter

displays a box instead of a Latin Small Letter Open E

After switching to Russian with  Locale switchToID: (LocaleID isoLanguage: 'ru').

16r411 asCharacter

is displayed as a box as well. It should be the Cyrillic capital letter Be

Regards

Hannes