Unicode Font Woes

[Sivakatirswami]

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Aloha, Ron:

I tried that too. I used a button with the traversal off,  put this  
script in the button, then selected the text in the field and press  
the button:

set the textfont of line 1 of fld "Tamil_Script" to "GIST-TMOTKalyani  
Bold Italic,Unicode"

Nothing happens. no changes of glyphs for the Kalyani font, no crazy  
characters now (as when you select form the font menu) and no error msg.

BUT the font displayed is still "InaiMathi" which is the default  
Tamil Font for Unicode on the Mac... but, and this is strange... if I  
query the field now


put the textfont of line 1 of fld "Tamil_Script"

it returns:

GIST-TMOTKalyani Bold Italic,Unicode

but InaiMathi is still appearing..

More news: my source says:

"But there is a practical problem here. Most of the GIST Tamil Unicode
fonts distributed free are meant for use on Windows PCs. Rendering of
Tamil glyphs in Unicode is done differently in Windows (use a rendering
engine called UNISCRIBE) as compared to Apple Mac (Mac uses ATSUI
search engine to deal with Open Truetype fonts for Unicode."

Perhaps this is part of the problem.. but these fonts appear fine in  
InDesign and BBedit...

I working on repackaging these for the ATSUI engine... maybe that  
will fix it, but I still think this is a Rev Bug... if some apps show  
the font, but Rev doesn't... ??

Sivakatirswami




On Sep 12, 2005, at 8:26 AM, ron barber wrote:

> Hi
> Are you selecting the text and then changing the font from the font  
> menu? This will not work with Unicode text. Try explicitly setting  
> the textfont to "Kalyani,Unicode"
>
> setting the font of unicode text from the menu does not work in its  
> current form. Someone please prove me wrong.
>
> HTH,
> Ron
>
>
> On Sep 11, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>
>
>> No one responded to my earlier query on Tamil font. Let me try  
>> again, simpler:
>>
>> Platform: OSX
>>
>> I have a field with unicode Tamil script,  I enter a single  
>> characater, it defaults to InaiMathi Tamil font, which is in the  
>> Apple system. I select the character and change it to a different  
>> Unicode Tamil font, (Kalyani)  it shows two square boxes for each  
>> of the two bytes instead of the proper glyph from the Kalyani font.
>>
>> If I type the same character in BBEdit or InDesign, select it and  
>> switch to Kalyani, the proper glyph is displayed. But not in  
>> Rev... if I query frorm the msg "put the textfont of char 1 to  
>> 2..." I get "Kalyani,unicode"  if I query "put the charToNum of  
>> char 1 to 2 of fld "tamil Script" I get 2965: which *is* indeed  
>> the correct unicode, code point for this Tamil character... but  
>> the glyph for the character is not displayed!
>>
>> OK, I cut and past the two chars from Rev into BBEdit... and I get  
>> a weird character. using "Re-open using Encoding" and select  
>> Unicode, UTF-16 and presto, those two characters that I copied  
>> from rev appear as Kalyani in BBEdit...
>>
>> So before I bugzilla this... I just want to be very sure I'm not  
>> missing something.
>>
>> Fishing in the dark here: is Rev not capable of displaying Unicode  
>> UTF-16 characters? These are openType true type fonts... I true  
>> some other .otf fonts... roman... they all display correctly
>>
>> Sivakatirswami
>>
>>
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