Re: Multi-lingual cut & paste support (was Re: One for our asian language experts...)

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Pete French wrote:

> get some errors:
>
> 2003-07-30 11:16:20.792 Rattatosk[74626] FTC_SBitCache_Lookup() failed 
> with error 00000006 (081c4f68, 12x12, 00000000)
> 2003-07-30 11:16:20.825 Rattatosk[74626] FTC_SBitCache_Lookup() failed 
> with error 00000006 (081c4f68, 12x12, 00000000)
> 2003-07-30 11:16:20.858 Rattatosk[74626] FTC_SBitCache_Lookup() failed 
> with error 00000006 (081c4f68, 12x12, 00000000)
> 2003-07-30 11:16:21.225 Rattatosk[74626] FTC_SBitCache_Lookup() failed 
> with error 00000006 (081c4f68, 12x12, 00000000)

This looks like something related to an art's wrapper function for the 
freetype library.
I hope this will go away once you set the fonts properly.

> the downside is that none of the non-european characters actually display
> under GNUstep - preseumably because they are not in the font used
> for TextFields ? I am not use what to do about that - I'm used to
> mozilla where it seems to have characters for prettymuch everything... 
> though
> I am not sure how it does that (multiple fonts whichlook the same ? I dont
> think it has one huge unicode font somehow...)

Ditto.  GNUstep won't display multibyte characters by default.  Please 
refer to the
instructions in gui/Documentation/Gui/LanguageSetup.html.

> How does one change the font ina textFiled (or a TextView for that 
> matter) on
> the fly in a running application ? Can I indicate for a give TextFiled 
> that I
> am going to be typing russian and I wouldlike it to use a cyrillic font ?

Mmm... If FontPanel can't be used for that purpose, I'm afraid 
on-the-fly font
change is impossible. (That's one of the motivations of my recent 
experimental
work on a text input management system, though it's far from completion.)

Cheers,
- Kazu