[squeak-dev] [Bug] Cannot use non-english characters even after loading a proper font

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Thu Aug 20 13:38:03 UTC 2015


Hey

On 19.08.2015, at 17:34, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:

> I see the following issues here (latest Trunk image):
> 
> 1. Glyphs for non-ascii (asciiValue >= 256) characters are shown as a black rectangle.

I see. and I don't know why :(

> 
> 2. FontImporterTool doesn't see fonts in the subdirectories of the base font directory. Because of this, there's only one font on the list for me.

No, that's not the reason for only one font.
The importer tries to group families of typefaces into one font
and displays them as a group.

> 
> 3. FontImporterTool doesn't use the selected font in the preview panel.

It surely does; but if you have a group selected, it will only display
one of its faces.

Best
	-Tobias

Can you give a screenshot?

> 
> Levente
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Tobias Pape wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mateusz
>> 
>> On 16.08.2015, at 00:56, Mateusz Grotek <unoduetre at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> First of all thank you for the new version of Squeak. It's really great.
>>> 
>>> Special thanks for Tobias and Marcel for the font import tool! It works perfectly.
>>> 
>>> Nevertheless I have noticed that there is a regression in Squeak 4.6/5.0 in the font handling. It's not possible anymore to use non-english characters even after loading a font that contains them (I've changed the code font and tried to use the characters in a workspace). Can anyone verify?
>> 
>> It is somewhat strange,
>> I imported Arial Unicode (the whole stuff) and, yes some characters did not show up,
>> but others (such as ß) did. I don't know yet _where_ the problem is. Although
>> I've written the importer, I still lack some knowledge to debug this behavior.
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 	-Tobias




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