Re: [Boa Constr] Problems displaying Romanian characters

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hi Endre,

Endre Szabo wrote:
> Hello
> 
> My app has the GUI with Romanian language. On Win98,
> some special letters arent displayed. On win2000 and
> xp, they are.
> Boa itself behaves in same way.

I do not have a win98 machine and have not had one for
many years, but as far as I know, you need to have
unicows.dll installed in your windows\system directory
for win98 to support unicode.

Please google for this file to find a place to download it.

> 
> I tried the following:
> - set all possible locale settings in windows to
> Romanian
> - in the first line of each form's code in my app I
> put
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-2 -*-#
> - set controls font to various ones supporting Central
> European character set
> - called SetFont(wx.Font(...) for controls with bot
> ISO and CP style encoding parameter.
> In the last case,  using ISO style parameter, got a
> message -- there is no font supporting this encoding,
> altrough localizable fonts are installed.
> 
> All above havent solve the problem.
> 
> Please help me solve it.
> 
> Generalizing the question: is there possible to make
> an app wich displays charscters properly independent
> of host machine's settings ? If so, how ?

See above.

> 
> Other experience:
> On the font dialog there's a 'Script' combo set to
> Western, Changing this setting has no effect, no extra
> code (encoding parameter?) is generated and the
> setting is not retained. What's the problem?

Which font dialog are you refering to?

Cheers,
Riaan.