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<DIV>Thanx for your pointers. I tried to test unicode features. It worked perfectly well. However, when i tried to do it for devanagri/telugu fonts i faced problems. can u or boris send me the right code or tell me the changes for devanagiri/telugu required in the code used for rendering Xiaoing.txt . also i donot really know how to read the font ascii codes(ie 16rFF etc.) for unicode glyphs. could u help me??<BR><BR><B><I>Hannes Hirzel <hirzel@spw.unizh.ch></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Shalabh,<BR><BR>Thank you for your roadmap which is comprehensive.<BR>I will just focus on giving an answer to the first point.<BR><BR><BR>Shalabh Raizada wrote:<BR>> Squeak is an IDE running on its own virtual machine. It uses 8-bit<BR>> <BR>> bitmap fonts. <BR><BR>This was true for pre 3.8-Squeak. With Squeak 3.8gamma (Squeak3.8g-6527<BR>exactly) and the package posted by Boris Gaertner (which contains an<BR>experience report and some additional changesets,<BR>a very comprehensive font called SofijaUC29 and a glyph browser)<BR>you get a Unicode bitmap font solution.<BR><BR>I consider this to be a good start.<BR>If I remember well the glyphs for hindi and telugu are in the SofijaUC29<BR>font. Squeak had for a very long time only bitmap fonts and people could<BR>do successful projects with it. One advantage of going for bitmap fonts<BR>only is that you can run your Squeak
application on any computer<BR>regardless what you find preinstalled as fonts.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><font face=arial size=-1>
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