Fwd: Fonts (was Re: [etoys-dev] Wording in Clouds)

> From: Andreas Raab <[hidden email]>
> Date: July 31, 2009 8:31:02 AM CEDT
> To: etoys dev <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: Fonts (was Re: [etoys-dev] Wording in Clouds)
>
> Hi -
>
> I've integrated Bert's fix as well as support for .ttc collections:
>
>  http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-283
>
> While working on this I realized how outdated the etoys image is  
> when it comes to TTF support. I was trying to bring in some other  
> necessary fixes but that wouldn't work at all, so I've added a filed  
> out version of TTCFont.st from 3.10.2-trunk which has all the  
> necessary fixes but probably some other issues. With this version  
> things *almost* work:
>
> * Install TTFileDescription.5.cs
> * Install TTCFont.st
> * Install WhiteSpaceFixes.2.cs
>
> (oh, stupid, stupid JIRA - it does not preserve the ordering in  
> which files were added and you cannot order by date even in "manage  
> attachments" mode; make sure you do *not* load TTFileDescription.st  
> since it's outdated)
>
> * If on Windows, execute:
>
>    TTFileDescription installFamilyNamed: 'Batang'.
>
> (this is a standard font on Windows which has CJK support)
>
> * Change the standard menu font to Batang
> * Switch the image to Japanese language
>
> At this point the image blows up somewhere in  
> TextMorph>>authoringPrototype. But if you proceed and open a menu it  
> shows CJK-ish looking characters (not that I could tell if it's  
> correct ;-)
>
> In any case, using the current versions of TTCFont in 3.10.2-trunk I  
> was able to produce the attached image which shows a bit of text  
> from Squeak's wikipedia entry in various languages.
>
> Yoshiki - for some strange reason it seems that some of the glyphs  
> in the Japanese entry are substituded by the default glyph (see the  
> fourth glyph in what I think is the phonetic transcription of Squeak).
>
> Do you have any idea if that is the expected behavior for Batang or  
> if there might be something wrong? It would be good if we could get  
> the text in Squeak to show up correctly, and I'm at a loss here  
> since I have no idea even what code ranges to look at ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas