men### [at] centrumcz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have following problem: I'd like to add some czech
> text to scene, but we have some "strange" characters
> in our alphabet (we use Central European fonts) and
> I'm not able put these characters into scene. I have fonts with these
> characters, but I guess they have higher numbers then 255, because I
> tried to make a scene with table of characters 0-255 using chr() but
> those I need weren't there. Had anyone solved simmilar problem? Not
> necessarily with czech, I think that the same problem must be in a lot
> of other languages.
> 
> Thanks for any advice

It is a common problem with the official version of the program. Unless
you make your own fonts with the characters you need in the range of
0-125 you won't be able to render them with Pov. There are two patched
versions of POV-Ray that will let you use some unicode fonts that might
be able to do what you want but you will have to be happy with running
an unofficial version of the program to use that feature.

You can read more about the problem  and look at one of the patches
at this site:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/unipatch/

and I am pretty sure the patch above is also available in the
MegaPov patched version of POV-Ray available at:

http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm

-- 
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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