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[Tuxpaint-devel] Problem with Greek Fonts

[Elias <ili...@gm...>]

Hello,
I have problem with greek letters on Tux Paint ver. 0.9.15-2 
(2005.12.05) in Win XP.
When I try to write Greek in Text tool (Abc) in screen appears "empty 
boxes".
How to solve this problem?

Thank's in advance,
 Elias

Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Problem with Greek Fonts

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On 3/28/06, Elias <ili...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have problem with greek letters on Tux Paint ver. 0.9.15-2
> (2005.12.05) in Win XP.
> When I try to write Greek in Text tool (Abc) in screen appears "empty
> boxes".
> How to solve this problem?

Translate the font scoring. Less desirable fonts will then move
to the bottom of the list. (you picked a crummy font)

For future hacking:

Probably there should be a per-language number that indicates
the relative value of plain ASCII, so that ASCII scoring need not
be discarded to support non-ASCII.

Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Problem with Greek Fonts

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:58:18PM +0300, Elias wrote:
> Hello,
> I have problem with greek letters on Tux Paint ver. 0.9.15-2 
> (2005.12.05) in Win XP.
> When I try to write Greek in Text tool (Abc) in screen appears "empty 
> boxes".
> How to solve this problem?
Hi Elias,

this was a problem with one of the underlying libraries (SDL) that Tux
Paint uses, and a bug in Tux Paint.

Both problems are fixed now, and we are (more or less) waiting for the
next release of SDL before making a new release of Tux Paint.

There is a (quite old by now) test version here:
http://johnnypops.demon.co.uk/files/tuxpaint-0.9.15/tuxpaint-cvs-unicode-test.zip

which contains a new 'tuxpaint.exe' and 'SDL.dll'. If you replace the
existing files with these new ones, it should work.

Let us know how you get on,

regards,
John Popplewell

> 
> Thank's in advance, Elias