Hello,

I am using Windows 2000 and POV-Ray 3.5 beta 6.

I have a font that I purchased from P22
(http://www.p22.com/products/flw.html).  I have not had a problem with this
font with any other application, but POV-Ray renders the wrong characters!
Most are empty boxes, some are normal, but incorrect glyphs.  I have also
tried this font with 3.1g and I get the message "error: Can't open font
file.".  If I use Moray for Windows 3.3 and POV-Ray 3.1g, Moray shows the
correct wire frame of the text but when I render it, I get the same results
as 3.5 (no error message this time).

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong.

Thanks
Jim Foster

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In article <3bcf02f0$1@news.povray.org> , "Jim Foster" 
<pov### [at] fiberbitscom> wrote:

> I am using Windows 2000 and POV-Ray 3.5 beta 6.
>
> I have a font that I purchased from P22
> (http://www.p22.com/products/flw.html).  I have not had a problem with this
> font with any other application, but POV-Ray renders the wrong characters!
> Most are empty boxes, some are normal, but incorrect glyphs.  I have also
> tried this font with 3.1g and I get the message "error: Can't open font
> file.".  If I use Moray for Windows 3.3 and POV-Ray 3.1g, Moray shows the
> correct wire frame of the text but when I render it, I get the same results
> as 3.5 (no error message this time).
>
> Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong.

Try using "utf8" instead of the default "ascii" character mapping:  For more
information, read about the "charset" option in the global_settings block.

    Thorsten

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BINGO!  That fixed it.
Thanks
Jim

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3bcf0a12@news.povray.org...
> In article <3bcf02f0$1@news.povray.org> , "Jim Foster"
> <pov### [at] fiberbitscom> wrote:
>
> > I am using Windows 2000 and POV-Ray 3.5 beta 6.
> >
> > I have a font that I purchased from P22
> > (http://www.p22.com/products/flw.html).  I have not had a problem with
this
> > font with any other application, but POV-Ray renders the wrong
characters!
> > Most are empty boxes, some are normal, but incorrect glyphs.  I have
also
> > tried this font with 3.1g and I get the message "error: Can't open font
> > file.".  If I use Moray for Windows 3.3 and POV-Ray 3.1g, Moray shows
the
> > correct wire frame of the text but when I render it, I get the same
results
> > as 3.5 (no error message this time).
> >
> > Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong.
>
> Try using "utf8" instead of the default "ascii" character mapping:  For
more
> information, read about the "charset" option in the global_settings block.
>
>     Thorsten

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