an issues with fonts, or accufonts yet again.
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Wed Mar 13 02:41:33 UTC 2002
mmm I realize there is a lack of progress on the font issue, however
let's present a real world problem.
Raymond Asselin <raymondasselin at sympatico.ca> was kind enough to
email me with concerns about character display using non-english
keyboards (ie the rest of the world). I welcome feedback, it makes
the VM a better place. Assistance in managing the mac VM support code
is even more welcome.
Although this was a bug that I created in 3.2.5 Mac VM, further
checking and feedback by Raymond pointed out that he could *NOT*
display a capital accented E typed via his nifty french Canadian
keyboard.
Why, well the default font which many have a licensing issue with, is
actually flawed, and doesn't display the character for that ascii
value.
So enter AccuFonts (again). I checked, due to the work of Duane
Maxwell and other he went to the effort to ensure foreign characters
actually *are* mapped correctly in the AccuFonts that he licenced for
the Squeak community to use.
Therefore could I suggest we install AccuFonts into the 3.3. image to
correct this support issue and kill that licensing issue. I belive
we are now approaching a year since this solution offered, actually
July 1st 2000 is when I asked my former business partner for
assistance in this matter and got Duane to start the porting.
However many of you might not be aware that the existing solution is
not only flawed from a license viewpoint (*who cares*) but is also
flawed in execution (*perhaps a more serious issue*).
Mmm I'm sure this will kick off another discussion about free
truetype fonts, or usage of *free* MS fonts etc, before one does
that you should review the archives for many year(s) of discussion on
the matter, and the non-solutions.
PS not that a license issue isn't a serious matter, but some really
don't care, but if you can't ever type capital accent E then you
might have a real barrier to Squeak usage.
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