Re: [ARMini-support] Fonts
- From: Steffen Huber <steffen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 18:55:49 +0200 (CEST)
A Rawnsley <rcomp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <y5gojdi6knl3h9xnxgmiqxbw.1465747238552@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"c.n.l.f@n4" <c.n.l.f@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a remarkable offer from within the riscos community.
As a matter of interest, how do users of alternative letter sets such as
Cyrillic use them? Do you have to buy an alternative keyboard?
And what happens if you receive a message in such a script? How can the
computer be made to render in the appropriate font?
I don't believe these are "Unicode" fonts, so won't have extended
character sets. Unless they specifically state otherwise, assume the
standard RISC OS 256 character (8bit) set.
This is a misleading answer. It does not need to be a Unicode font to
support more than 256 characters/glyphs per font. Just have a look at
Homerton or Trinity with an application that supports selection of an
encoding (like XChars or TechWriter).
Don't know how good the APDL fonts are in this respect, however. I
seem to remember that the EFF "4000 free fonts" CD had quite a few
fonts with complete character set for all standard RISC OS encodings
including kyrillic characters.
It is *possible* that some include other Latin etc variations, but this is
where things get a bit tricky with the old 8bit font manager vs newer
Unicode 16+ bit font manager.
Why is this "tricky". Both the 8bit font manager (since RISC OS 3.1
I think) and the Unicode font manager support fonts with different
encodings. E.g. NetSurf makes use of these capabilities. But it
is true that not many applications support this. Only way around is
to temporary set a different alphabet as standard. Then, applications
have no choice but to support it :-)
RISC OS applications have been traditionally weak on the i18n
side of things, including support for different encodings and
nowadays Unicode.
The best bet for obtaining more Unicode fonts tends to be to convert them
from TTF (Truetype) versions with the NetSurf-project-derived convertor.
That is true.
Unfortunately, EFF has apparently vanished after Edward's death.
Steffen
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