>> Now let's try displaying a czech character. It should look as a
This works. I'm tweaking it to make cyrillic fonts work too
> Please note that it is preferred to discuss topics of general interest on
> the vwnc list for the benefit of people outside of the vw-dev program.
> However since vwnc was shut down recently and I'm not sure it is fully back
> up yet, I'll post to both lists now.
>
> I'm definitely not the expert on this but I did succeed in getting czech
> character display using a Unicode font and even character input using czech
> keyboard almost worked on Linux. I compiled my experience in the attached
> workspace. Note that this was I believe 3.5 years ago and things may have
> changed since then.
>
> HTH,
>
> Martin
>
> Yakov wrote:
> >
> > I'm using Fedora Core 6 (Unicode locale) and i'm experiencing same
> > troubles with national characters
> >
> > E.g i don't see russian characters in filenames written in russian
> > from File Browser. I see same black boxes
> >
> > ---
> > With best regards, Yakov Zaytsev [|]
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2006/12/18, Mark Plas
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have a question regarding internationalization using VW & Windows XP.
> >> This is what I do:
> >>
> >> - I switch the keyboard layout to 'Sami, Northern (Norway)' (using the
> >> Regional settings in the control panel)
> >> - In MS word and in MS Outlook I can type in and see all the specific
> >> characters that are present on a 'Sami' keyboard
> >>
> >> When I try this in a basic VW 7.4.1 image, I can only type in very few
> >> of those characters. A lot of them appear as question marks. When I
> >> copy-paste them from MS Word into a VW workspace, most of the characters
> >> get replaced with black boxes or question marks.
> >>
> >> I then load the Unicode code support parcel that is part of the preview
> >> parcels of VW 7.4.1. With this loaded, I can copy paste from MS word to
> >> a VW workspace and all characters are pasted correctly (I've inspected
> >> the string that I get back in VW and it contains all the correct unicode
> >> characters). However, there are a few characters that display themselves
> >> as 'black boxes' even though these characters are displayed correctly in
> >> MS Word.
> >>
> >> With this unicode support parcel loaded I still cannot enter the
> >> characters that are on the 'Sami' keyboard. I can enter some of them,
> >> but others either display a question mark or display a different
> >> character than the one I entered, even though copy pasting them from MS
> >> Word into VW does work.
> >>
> >> Why doesn't VW display the same characters that MS Word can display and
> >> why can't I enter the same characters as I can in MS Word ?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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