Foreign Fonts

Doug Easterbrook doug at artsman.com
Wed Sep 1 01:21:14 UTC 2021


I’m guessing here..

omnis is UTF8 ….  so if a character can be put in, it should show as the character you put in.    We use the wheelchair symbol for theatres displayed in a field using ludicia.

I had a quick search for Cyrillic character set.   

https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=1024 <https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=1024>

and another search gave me the following .. which is that lucidia supports Cyrillic — with no work on your part.   it just takes up 4 bytes per character, so that will affect length of variables.

Is Lucida Console a Unicode font?
Lucida Grande fonts (and also Lucida Console and Lucida Retro fonts) contain the 650 character WGL pan-European set (also called Windows Glyph List), which includes Unicode Basic Latin, Latin-1, Latin Extended-A, modern Greek, basic Cyrillic, to support most languages of Europe and the Americas, as well as some ...







hope that helps.





Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
mailto:doug at artsman.com
http://www.artsman.com
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> On August 31, 2021, at 5:15 PM, Das Goravani <goravanis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> I repaired Graham’s translation demo, it’s working now.
> 
> I am surprised about one thing, when you select Hindi or Russian or other language that uses a non-Latin alphabet, it shows up in the right font just fine. This is in a data grid. The data grid is set on Fieldstyle=CtrlDataGrid.. and the font it says that is is Lucida Grande on the Mac.
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> I don’t understand, how it is showing the translated text in foreign alphabets?
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> I haven’t added Hindi or Russian to my window fonts .. but they show just perfectly.
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> How is that possible?
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> I was thinking if I offered those languages translations I would have to have those fonts installed on the users machine and I would have to add them to my windows fonts list.. and report fonts list.. and then change the font on the field depending on language selected
> 
> But in grahams demo they should just fine without the font being changed.
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> How does it know which font to pick, how does it bypass the Windows Fonts List need.. 
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> Can I just pass Russian to a text field on a window and it will show?
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> Are Data Grids special in this regard?
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> I’m confused.. it may be simpler than I thought to offer these foreign alphabets
> 
> Can someone explain to me how this actually works?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Das
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