Hi, I have been trying to get an extended character set correctly
mapped into PD from external text files. T. Mayer pointed out that PD
(at least on osx) use UTF-8 format. So saving all my text files as
UTF-8 lets them load into PD with the characters correctly mapped. In
this way I am also able to get Japanese characters correctly mapped
into PD. So now I want to bring them into Gem - the textextruded
object. I am using the Hiragino OTF that ships with OSX. The font
loads fine, but the Japanese characters will not display - reference
the correct characters. Just a buch of very wrongly placed latin
symbols and accents. Im feeding them straight from a symbol object so
I can see its the right characters. Is there a limitation to the
[textextruded] object? Or could this be the font?
Anyone know a fix here?
Many thanks Timon.
Hi Timon,
Sorry, no fix here, but maybe this will be helpful to further investigation.
I've tried the same with Russian letters and a bunch of different fonts and encodings. Wasn't able to get it to work. It looked like GEM was thinking that the input was in Latin-1 encoding.
Vasily
On 11/6/06, timon timon@sosolimited.com wrote:
Hi, I have been trying to get an extended character set correctly mapped into PD from external text files. T. Mayer pointed out that PD (at least on osx) use UTF-8 format. So saving all my text files as UTF-8 lets them load into PD with the characters correctly mapped. In this way I am also able to get Japanese characters correctly mapped into PD. So now I want to bring them into Gem - the textextruded object. I am using the Hiragino OTF that ships with OSX. The font loads fine, but the Japanese characters will not display - reference the correct characters. Just a buch of very wrongly placed latin symbols and accents. Im feeding them straight from a symbol object so I can see its the right characters. Is there a limitation to the [textextruded] object? Or could this be the font?
Anyone know a fix here?
Many thanks Timon.
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timon wrote:
buch of very wrongly placed latin symbols and accents. Im feeding them straight from a symbol object so I can see its the right characters. Is there a limitation to the [textextruded] object? Or could this be the font?
i guess it is a limitation of the underlying font-renderer (ftgl) and/or the way Gem passes characters to it.
Anyone know a fix here?
the simplest _workaround_ is, to create a custom font where all the characters you want to display are mapped into the range 0..255 this obviously won't work, if you have alphabets with a large number of glyphs (like japanese if you want to display every possible character)
if anyone has a real fix, i'll be happy to incorporate it into the sources...
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