[Newbies] Cyrilic fonts in Squeak

[Ariel Feinerman]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 3:52 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:00:54AM +0300, Ariel Feinerman wrote:
> > I istalled Free Type Plus like it was said in
> > http://www.nat-geo.ru/planet/193798-posledniy-den-palmiry but nothing
> > change. Then I load fonts with cyrillic support
> > http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download and
> > https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts. I changed system fonts and
> all
> > works well. I can see, the only problem is lack of needed fonts, so why
> the
> > developers do not include them in the production image or at least
> > distribute them with it? Smalltalk is excellent for child teaching but it
> > is not good for children to study programming with ???? marks and
> > installing fonts ;-)
>
> Maybe you can help by being a developer too :-)  If you have knowledge of
> the subject, and an iterest in making improvements, then your help will
> be welcome.
>
>
Of course, it is why I am here. I like Squeak and wish to help as much as I
can. I would like to use it in our University and therefore we need some
internationalization .


> Here is an overview of how our community development process works:
>
>
> https://squeakboard.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/a-new-community-development-model/
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> >
> > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > On 21.05.2015, at 03:21, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 04:06:59AM +0300, Ariel Feinerman wrote:
> > > >> Hi all,
> > > >>
> > > >> does anyone know how to allow cyrillic and other languages in Squeak
> > > 4.5?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > I have no personal knowledge in this area, but I know that cyrillic
> fonts
> > > > have been supported in various Squeak versions, and I would expect
> that
> > > this
> > > > should be possible in the latest Squeak releases also. Try googling
> > > "squeak
> > > > cyrillic fonts", follow a few links and see if it helps.
> > >
> > > When importing a TTF font we only import the latin glyphs to save
> space.
> > > I???m not exactly sure where in the code that is, but by adding the
> cyrillic
> > > code points it should just work. All the machinery is there.
> > >
> > > Also, Nicolay???s ???????????????????????? SDK supports cyrillic fonts:
> > >
> > > http://st.krestianstvo.org/web/en/download
> > >
> > > - Bert -
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Ariel
>
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-- 
Best regards,
Ariel
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