That's done the trick! You are a superstar!

Thanks

"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote in message
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> Wasn't it Reuben Pearse who wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >When rendering some text using a True Type Font called Metrostyle in
Povray
> >3.5, it renders strange characters (i.e. "Hello" becomes "$66#")
>
> I don't have metr75.ttf, but I do have Metrostyle Extended Font
> metr53.ttf which exhibits the same problem.
>
> I think that "Extended" bit is to do with the fact that it's a unicode
> font, and you have to tell POVRay to use a unicode charset instead of
> ascii when using such a font. Like this:
>
> global_settings {
>   charset utf8
> }
>
> -- 
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

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