Is it possible to setup Russian fonts in Pharo + Cog VM?

AFAIK, Cog VM does not allow to use system fonts.

But still, is there a way to install fonts (of any type) with support for Russian symbols? … Better without too much efforts like manually assigning offsets for each character :)

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Dennis Schetinin

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Dennis Schetinin <[hidden email]> wrote:

AFAIK, Cog VM does not allow to use system fonts.

What makes you think that?  Cog should be the same as the standard VM.  At Teleplace, for example, they use Cog with the NativeFontPlugin without problems.

 

But still, is there a way to install fonts (of any type) with support for Russian symbols? … Better without too much efforts like manually assigning offsets for each character :)

What's the way to do this on the standard VM and how does this approach fail on the Cog VM?

best,

Eliot

 

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Dennis Schetinin

Pharo One-Click with "classic" VM simply shows all the "native" fonts and displays russian symbols correctly if I choose, say Courier New. The same with Cog does not work: it shows only 2 fonts and even if I add system fonts using classic VM and then open that image with Cog, it refuses to show those fonts.

Moreover, I found some messages mentioned that Cog does not yet support rendering of native fonts or something like that (don't remember details, sorry). Some one on russian forum said the same.

Actually, it's great if I'm mistaken, but how can I make it work with russian fonts?

2011/3/1 Eliot Miranda <[hidden email]>

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Dennis Schetinin <[hidden email]> wrote:

AFAIK, Cog VM does not allow to use system fonts.

What makes you think that?  Cog should be the same as the standard VM.  At Teleplace, for example, they use Cog with the NativeFontPlugin without problems.

 

But still, is there a way to install fonts (of any type) with support for Russian symbols? … Better without too much efforts like manually assigning offsets for each character :)

What's the way to do this on the standard VM and how does this approach fail on the Cog VM?

best,

Eliot

 

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Dennis Schetinin

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Dennis Schetinin

Eliot Miranda-2 wrote:

>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Dennis Schetinin  wrote:
>
>> AFAIK, Cog VM does not allow to use system fonts.
>
>
> What makes you think that?  Cog should be the same as the standard VM.  At
> Teleplace, for example, they use Cog with the NativeFontPlugin without
> problems.
>
>
>> But still, is there a way to install fonts (of any type) with support for
>> Russian symbols? … Better without too much efforts like manually
>> assigning
>> offsets for each character :)
>>
>
> What's the way to do this on the standard VM and how does this approach
> fail
> on the Cog VM?
>
> best,
> Eliot
>
>
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>> Dennis Schetinin
>>
>

The standard VM includes FT2Plugin by default, the Cog VM does not.
In a Pharo image, that is what loads the system fonts when you click
Settings -> Appearance -> Standard Fonts -> Update fonts from System.

I've never heard of NativeFontPlugin before, is it something new?

Cheers,
Henry

PS. At least on Mac, you can copy over the plugin from a normal VM, and it
will work with Cog.


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Dennis Schetinin wrote:
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> Yes, it works. Thank you!
>

Great!  Dennis, this is probably information more people would want to know
so could you put together a little how-to and share it on the Russian forum?

ps. Does info like this need to go into http://book.pharo-project.org
somewhere?


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>
> The standard VM includes FT2Plugin by default, the Cog VM does not.

yep. And we're going to fix that.. just give a little time :)

> In a Pharo image, that is what loads the system fonts when you click
> Settings -> Appearance -> Standard Fonts -> Update fonts from System.
>
> I've never heard of NativeFontPlugin before, is it something new?
>
> Cheers,
> Henry
>
> PS. At least on Mac, you can copy over the plugin from a normal VM, and it
> will work with Cog.
>

most probably it will work for other platforms as well.

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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.