Yoshiki,

For some reason, the m17n installer also installs a broken (!) version of
HostFont. In particular HostFont>>displayString:on:from:to:at:kern: is
utterly broken as can be seen by evaluating:

    HostFont textStyleFrom: 'Arial'.
    mm := StringMorph new.
    mm font: (TextStyle named: 'Arial') defaultFont.
    mm fullDrawOn: Display getCanvas.

If you remove the method (e.g., just fall back to StrikeFont's
implementation) everything works fine.

Question: Is there any reason why HostFont has to be in the m17n image?

Cheers,
  - Andreas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yoshiki Ohshima" <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Test][3.8a][m17n] After loading host fonts Squeak blocks


>   Hannes,
>
> > In a 3.8a image with the install script loaded (see my previous mail of
> > I found that I can load Windows host (Unicode) fonts,
> > like Times New Roman, Garamond, Lucida Sans Unicode etc.
> >
> > with
> >
> >     HostFont initWin32
> >
> > The fileIn of the fonts works fine.
> >
> > However if I then try to select one of these fonts as a system default
> > font Squeak blocks
> >
> > in
> >
> > Array(SequenceqbleCollection)>>first
> > HostFont>>displayString:on:from:to:at:kern:
> > FormCanvas>>drawString:from:to:in:font:color:
> >
> > Am I missing an important intermediary step  or does this just not work
> > yet?
>
>   I haven't tried to use them as system font in 3.8a images, but I do
> have a revised FontPlugin that allows you to get Unicode font from
> Windows somewhere.
>
>   It is hard to tell what went wrong, but did you have some strings
> that contains non-latin1 chars and the font doesn't contain the glyphs
> for them?  The fallbackfont inst var have to be initialized in a
> manner of StrikeFont class>>setupDefaultFallbackFont does...
>
> -- Yoshiki
>
>