[squeak-dev] Re: 603 asCharacter <print it>

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 17:16:37 UTC 2010


Hi,

I just tried this on a Mac OS X with success:

TTFileDescription installFamilyNamed: 'Arial'.
(StringHolder new contents: 'a' , (String with: 603 asCharacter with:
16r411 asCharacter)) openLabel: 'Some unicode'.

Then used CMD+SHIFT+K and selected Arial.

Nicolas

2010/3/27 Hannes Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>:
> Hello
>
> I really like the new look with the updated GUI elements and with a
> regular menu bar in Squeak 4.1alpha #9832
>
> So I did a retest how Unicode characters are displayed.
>
>
> Display Unicode symbols broken
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> I wanted to choose a font from the platform
>
>    Cmd-K (Alt-K) and go to the (equally new) "More (non-portable)
> Fonts..." entry
>
> The choice for "More (non-portable) Fonts..." is not available.
>
>
> Then I did
>   TTFileDescription installFamilyNamed: 'Arial'.
> as mentioned in the readme file.
>
> The evaluation of
>  603 asCharacter
>
> displays a box instead of a Latin Small Letter Open E
>
>
> After switching to Russian with
>  Locale switchToID: (LocaleID isoLanguage: 'ru').
>
>  16r411 asCharacter
>
> is displayed as a box as well. It should be the Cyrillic capital letter Be
>
>
> Regards
>
> Hannes
>
>



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