Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3BADC84E.1AB6A6C0@post8.tele.dk> , Nils Olav Kilen
> <nok### [at] post8teledk>  wrote:
>
> > When using ASCII character mapping, the danish letters are not
> > supported.
>
> This is correct.
>
> > When using UDF8 character mapping (with unicode formatting of the
> > .pov-file, using notepad), the parser cannot parse the document
> > successfully, rendering only garbage.
>
> Are you sure the text output is really UTF8?  Does it work if you use the
> raw character code with "\uXXXX" (where XXXX is the hexadecimal character
> code) instead of encoding the characters in UTF8 directly?
>
> > When using SYS character mapping (assuming support for Windows NT4
> > mapping), Pov-Ray 3.5 crashes every time a render is initiated.
>
> Of course it should not do that...
>
> > Conclusion: Rendering danish characters (and a lot of other 'foreign'
> > characters, for that matter) is not possible in Pov-Ray 3.5 at its
> > present state, and the TTF capability of the program is virtually
> > unusable to me if this feature persists to be unavailable.
>
> It is working and has been tested.  Unfortunately there are so many
> variations and formats of TTF fonts that only the operating system can
> really know what to do with them.  Please don't jump to conclusions - this
> is a *beta* version and the point is to find bugs (if this is one) so they
> can be fixed!!!
>
>     Thorsten
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
> e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
>
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I am aware of the fact that this is beta software, and as such not bug free. I
was'nt just seeking help or advice in my posting, but also maybe some feedback
from other betatesters out there who were able to confirm my findings.

I know I made a couple of typo's and other errors (like the UDF/UTF thing),
but I just wanted to report my findings, and maybe get some comment on how to
deal with them (do this-or-that-thing-to-fix-problem, wait for new beta
version, forget the matter), something of that sort...

Thanks for the response, anyway.

Best Regards

Nils Olav Kilen.

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