Thank you Nicolas for doing the test on a Mac,

I did a similar test again on MSWindows

32 to: 1000 do: [:code | Transcript show: (code printString , ' ',
code asCharacter asString,' ')]

Then I selected the generated text in the Transcript and changed the
font to a Unicode font and voila the Unicode symbols were there.

What I found out is that the problem lies at a different place

1) Open a Workspace
2) Right-Click on it and choose 'Set font'
3) Choose 'Arial'
4) Evaluate 16r411 asCharacter
-> A box appears
5) Select the expression and choose 'Arial' again.
-> The Cyrillic capital letter Be appears

So the question is: How do I tell a Workspace to accept 'Arial' as its
default font.

Hannes

On 3/28/10, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
>