Cyrilic fonts in Squeak

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:00:54AM +0300, Ariel Feinerman wrote:
> I istalled Free Type Plus like it was said in
> http://www.nat-geo.ru/planet/193798-posledniy-den-palmiry but nothing
> change. Then I load fonts with cyrillic support
> http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Download and
> https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts. I changed system fonts and all
> works well. I can see, the only problem is lack of needed fonts, so why the
> developers do not include them in the production image or at least
> distribute them with it? Smalltalk is excellent for child teaching but it
> is not good for children to study programming with ???? marks and
> installing fonts ;-)

Maybe you can help by being a developer too :-)  If you have knowledge of
the subject, and an iterest in making improvements, then your help will
be welcome.

Here is an overview of how our community development process works:

  https://squeakboard.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/a-new-community-development-model/

Dave



>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On 21.05.2015, at 03:21, David T. Lewis <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 04:06:59AM +0300, Ariel Feinerman wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> does anyone know how to allow cyrillic and other languages in Squeak
> > 4.5?
> > >>
> > >
> > > I have no personal knowledge in this area, but I know that cyrillic fonts
> > > have been supported in various Squeak versions, and I would expect that
> > this
> > > should be possible in the latest Squeak releases also. Try googling
> > "squeak
> > > cyrillic fonts", follow a few links and see if it helps.
> >
> > When importing a TTF font we only import the latin glyphs to save space.
> > I???m not exactly sure where in the code that is, but by adding the cyrillic
> > code points it should just work. All the machinery is there.
> >
> > Also, Nicolay???s ???????????????????????? SDK supports cyrillic fonts:

> >
> > http://st.krestianstvo.org/web/en/download
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Best regards,
> Ariel

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