Ties,
I was wondering if the chances of proper rendering have increased for Devanagari in the last couple of months? The last post on the subject I managed to fish from the archives was from December, and I believe someone (Yoshiki?) was working on it at the time. What are the issues at the moment?
A bit of increase, yes. Updates #1932 through #1934 have support for text rendering by Pango. It works in some cases but needs some more fixes.
To try:
- Fully update your etoys-3.0.image. - Make sure that VM is later than squeakvm3.9-12olpc5 (or something like that). - Open a TextMorph (or UserText), and get an inspector for it. (Don't try it something in a SystemWindow like Workspace.) - In the inspector, try something like (this is greek range):
self contents: (String newFrom: (16r386 to: 16r38F) collect: [:i | (Character value: i)]).
- In the same inspector, try:
self usePango: true.
- Click or move the text to cause redrawing.
- Possibly, select the text, get the Change font menu from halo and say 'external font'. I can't tell top of my head that what would be the appropriate font name for Devanagari, but if you're lucky (such as have a font, Pango has the engine, etc.) it would render it.
-- Yoshiki