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Re: Chinese Character Data

Posted by HilaireFernandes on Aug 18, 2015; 6:19am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Chinese-Character-Data-tp4843635p4843645.html

Le 18/08/2015 12:52, Peter Uhnák a écrit :

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:17 AM, Sean P. DeNigris
> <[hidden email]
> <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
>     Can I e.g. paste Chinese characters from a web page and save as
>     data? I don't
>     need to be able to use Chinese characters for code. I see pasting
>     creates a
>     wide string but the characters do not display. I assume this is
>     because my
>     font does not support them, but in the Settings Browser I only see
>     3 choices
>     on Mac, none of which seem to display them.
>
>
> This may be due to FreeType not really being loaded? Try unchecking
> and then checking again "Use free type...".
> But apart from fonts, CJK content should work.
>
> However I don't quite understand why would I need to change font so
> CJK characters are displayed.
> Because no matter what font I pick, there will be language whose
> characters are not supported...
> and why do I need to select the font in the first place? My linux
> terminal has DejaVu Sans Mono font and yet it displays CJK characters
> just fine,
> so surely we can do better than a stupid urxvt terminal?
>
> Peter
Good questions!
Does FreeType manages fonts? Selecting an alternate font when the asked
glyph is absent?
No idea, and I am curious to know how it is managed  at the OS level.

For DrGeo, at startup time, I load different font depending on the
language of the OS host, about copy pasting chinese text it does not
work for me. I got unicode values: \u81fa\u5317\u5e02 and not 臺北市.
But may be a problem of my host.

Hilaire

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