[squeak-dev] Re: 603 asCharacter <print it>

Hannes Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Sat Aug 15 17:38:37 UTC 2009


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.

Hannes

On 8/14/09, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> hannes.hirzel wrote:
>> 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
>
>



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