I noticed a problem in the latest 3.5 beta 2 release of Pov-Ray.

I've always had difficulties using TrueType fonts (any fonts) with the

OE, AA, ae, oe and aa, if your browser does not support these), but in
the old 3.1 release i found a (very, very quirky) workaround for this,
using a character mapping scheme for each. It worked, but barely.

Thsi facility is unsupported in vers. 3.5 beta. When reading the docs, i
thought: Aha! The global 'charmap' keyword eliminates the need for this!
Alas, not, i'm afraid. The following errors are present:

When using ASCII character mapping, the danish letters are not
supported.

When using UDF8 character mapping (with unicode formatting of the
.pov-file, using notepad), the parser cannot parse the document
successfully, rendering only garbage.

When using SYS character mapping (assuming support for Windows NT4
mapping), Pov-Ray 3.5 crashes every time a render is initiated.

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. Preferably, I
would like the SYS character mapping support to be better,
alternatively, to upgrade the editor and parser to be able to use
unisys-coded TrueType fonts.

Pease let me know if (and when) this matter will be attended to, or if
there is another workaround I haven't been imagining to try out yet. (I
feel I've thought of every possible way to get this to work, but I'm
only so smart...*BG*)

Thank you for keeping up the work with improving and expanding Pov-Ray.

Best Regards

Nils Olav Kilen

nok### [at] post8teledk

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