In article <3a9c8c3d@news.povray.org> , "The \"D\"" 
<web### [at] bsthypermartnet> wrote:

> I have run accross an odd situation. I was trying to do some greek 3d
> lettering with pov-ray but when I tried to use the font (a greek font dl'd
> from a Christian site) I didn't get greek characters. Instead I got what
> looked like a 1 and then some digital looking 0's (it may have been boxes
> I'm not sure). Trying the standard windows symbol.ttf I got the proper
> results. My question is, does povray require the font's to be 32-bit win95
> fonts? I think the first font I tried was a win3.x 16bit font.

Only characters in ASCII range (character code 0 to 127) are supported
in POV-Ray 3.1.  The boxes you see are default characters that will be
displayed when the corresponding character could not be found in the
font by the search method that POV-Ray uses to find a character inside
the font file.


     Thorsten

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