10:33 a.m.
I tried to follow the instructions posted by various posters for
displaying pages containing "foreign" alphabets. I grabbed a copy of the
CyberBIT font (plus CyberCJK, CJK standing for chinese, japanese,
korean, right ?) on the netscape.com ftp server. Converted them with
TTF2font (takes ages on a SA RPC !), installed them with the rest of the
!Fonts (along the files /Base98 and /Base99). The Messages1 file inside
!Fonts bears the new entries:
BEncoding_Base99:
BEncoding_Base98:
LFont_CyberBIT:*
LFont_CyberCJK:*
I configured Netsurf to use the CyberCJK font (except the "default" font
since no popup appears when I click on the icon to do that) and went to
www.iriver.co.kr. I saw no korean displayed by means of text strings
(only gifs). What can I try next ?
I also tried http://www.al-jazirah.com.sa, with NetSurf configured to
use CyberBIT. No arab in there. Also, I notice that there's never a
single space between 2 consecutive glyphs with CyberBIT (especially
apparent when english is displayed).
It's not an essential thing for me, I'm just experimenting and would
like to admire the beautiful display with chinese fonts for instance.
Btw, I have a RPC SA, RISC OS 4.02, NS Test Build (24 Apr 2005 22:00)
On a different note, keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work anymore.
Hitting RETURN with the "Open URL" window doesn't do anything.
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Jérôme Mathevet
4:45 p.m.
Jerome Mathevet <jerome.mathevet(a)free.fr> wrote:
I tried to follow the instructions posted by various posters for
displaying pages containing "foreign" alphabets. I grabbed a copy of the
CyberBIT font (plus CyberCJK, CJK standing for chinese, japanese,
korean, right ?)
[Snip]
It's not an essential thing for me, I'm just experimenting
and would
like to admire the beautiful display with chinese fonts for instance.
Btw, I have a RPC SA, RISC OS 4.02, NS Test Build (24 Apr 2005 22:00)
The RISC OS 5 unicode font manager is required for full unicode support.
I'm sure thats in the instructions for NetSurf, !TT2f, and my own emails on
the subject. If not make a note!
On a different note, keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work
anymore.
Hitting RETURN with the "Open URL" window doesn't do anything.
Not a good idea to tack additional questions on to emails about something
else, its likely to get missed, better to start a new one with an
appropriate subject line.
Cheers
---Dave
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Email: druck(a)druck.org.uk
Phone: +44- (0)7974 108301
Web: http://www.druck.org.uk/
11:36 p.m.
In message <gemini.ifk0r800aamg6019c.druck(a)druck.org.uk>
"David J. Ruck" <druck(a)druck.org.uk> wrote:
[snip]
The RISC OS 5 unicode font manager is required for full unicode
support.
Yes, I know. However, I don't see exactly what that means for OSes
before RO5, nor do I remember reading anything like this in the docs or
the mailing-list (probably because I didn't look at the right place)
I'm sure thats in the instructions for NetSurf, !TT2f, and my
own emails on the subject. If not make a note!
Full support only available on RO5, yes I read that too. Sorry for being
thick.
> On a different note, keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work
anymore.
> Hitting RETURN with the "Open URL" window doesn't do anything.
Not a good idea to tack additional questions on to emails about
something else, its likely to get missed, better to start a new one
with an appropriate subject line.
I hesitated to do that, but normally and this has been repeated lately,
the developers read all the messages ! However, I agree it can be a pain
to find my bug report with a search function a bit later on.
--
Jérôme Mathevet
5:01 p.m.
In message <2d3185614d%speedsterh(a)straciatella.my.home>
Jerome Mathevet <jerome.mathevet(a)free.fr> wrote:
I tried to follow the instructions posted by various posters for
displaying pages containing "foreign" alphabets. I grabbed a copy of the
CyberBIT font (plus CyberCJK, CJK standing for chinese, japanese,
korean, right ?) on the netscape.com ftp server. Converted them with
TTF2font (takes ages on a SA RPC !), installed them with the rest of the
!Fonts (along the files /Base98 and /Base99). The Messages1 file inside
!Fonts bears the new entries:
BEncoding_Base99:
BEncoding_Base98:
LFont_CyberBIT:*
LFont_CyberCJK:*
I configured Netsurf to use the CyberCJK font (except the "default" font
since no popup appears when I click on the icon to do that) and went to
www.iriver.co.kr. I saw no korean displayed by means of text strings
(only gifs). What can I try next ?
<snip>
Btw, I have a RPC SA, RISC OS 4.02, NS Test Build (24 Apr 2005 22:00)
<snip>
You may be out of luck. John-Mark Bell stated in the thread 'Fonts to use
with Netsurf?' that "fonts converted with TTF2F are highly unlikely to
work on pre-RO5 Os versions."
I assume you have obtained Iconv from
http://moose.mine.nu:6888/iconv_latest.zip, but do you have a Unicode
font setup (!Boot.Resources.!Unicode) on your system?
Try selecting your new handy-dandy Unicode font from the fonts menu in,
say, Edit, and see if you get anywhere. If it doesn't work in Edit, it's
unlikely to work in Netsurf.
--
Simon Smith
O, varium et mutabile semper alpha.
11:32 p.m.
In message <0cb1a8614d.zen44412(a)zen.co.uk>
Simon Smith <simon_smith(a)zen.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
You may be out of luck. John-Mark Bell stated in the thread
'Fonts to
use with Netsurf?' that "fonts converted with TTF2F are highly
unlikely to work on pre-RO5 Os versions."
I see. Never mind.
I assume you have obtained Iconv from
http://moose.mine.nu:6888/iconv_latest.zip, but do you have a Unicode
font setup (!Boot.Resources.!Unicode) on your system?
Yes I have, and the !Uniccode ressource is now distributed with iconv
(IIRC). There was an option in Netsurf "Use ufont technology", but it
has disappeared from recent builds.
Try selecting your new handy-dandy Unicode font from the fonts menu
in, say, Edit, and see if you get anywhere. If it doesn't work in
Edit, it's unlikely to work in Netsurf.
Doesn't work. I'll have to reclaim the 30+ MB of hard disc space for the
fonts.
Thanks for yor help !
--
Jérôme Mathevet
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