Hello,

Is there anybody fromRussia here?

I am a programmer from Russia. I create computer graphics and
animation for educational programs. I use PovRay about four years.

I used PovRay 3.00.msdos.wat-cwa. Now I want to use PovRay 3.1g, but I
have a problem with russian fonts. I was not able to use unicode fonts
in PovRay 3.0, but I used non-unicode fonts. Now I can not use russian
fonts entirely. Why? I think that a code page does not check with the
russian code page. For Windows 95 the russian code page is 1251.
PovRay 3.1 has a lot of new and I would like to use it. What must I do
to render russian letters with PovRay 3.1? Please, help me.

I have attached a zip-archive with a example of using russian letters and
a russian ttf-fonts "baltica". I think this file is not very large.

Please write me by e-mail: bd### [at] nicaru
Thanking you in anticipation
                      Dmitry

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Attachments:
Download 'fonts.zip' (33 KB)

I'm in the USA and some characters looked like dots, dashes, greater than and
less than signs when I rendered the file.  I'm not sure what the problem is.
Brendan Ryan

Dmirty Bystrov wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there anybody fromRussia here?
>
> I am a programmer from Russia. I create computer graphics and
> animation for educational programs. I use PovRay about four years.
>
> I used PovRay 3.00.msdos.wat-cwa. Now I want to use PovRay 3.1g, but I
> have a problem with russian fonts. I was not able to use unicode fonts
> in PovRay 3.0, but I used non-unicode fonts. Now I can not use russian
> fonts entirely. Why? I think that a code page does not check with the
> russian code page. For Windows 95 the russian code page is 1251.
> PovRay 3.1 has a lot of new and I would like to use it. What must I do
> to render russian letters with PovRay 3.1? Please, help me.
>
> I have attached a zip-archive with a example of using russian letters and
> a russian ttf-fonts "baltica". I think this file is not very large.
>
> Please write me by e-mail: bd### [at] nicaru
> Thanking you in anticipation
>                       Dmitry
>
>                 Name: fonts.zip
>    fonts.zip    Type: Zip Compressed Data (application/x-zip-compressed)
>             Encoding: x-uuencode

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Dmirty Bystrov wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is there anybody fromRussia here?
> 
> I am a programmer from Russia. I create computer graphics and
> animation for educational programs. I use PovRay about four years.
> 
> I used PovRay 3.00.msdos.wat-cwa. Now I want to use PovRay 3.1g, but I
> have a problem with russian fonts. I was not able to use unicode fonts
> in PovRay 3.0, but I used non-unicode fonts. Now I can not use russian
> fonts entirely. Why? I think that a code page does not check with the
> russian code page. For Windows 95 the russian code page is 1251.
> PovRay 3.1 has a lot of new and I would like to use it. What must I do
> to render russian letters with PovRay 3.1? Please, help me.
> 
> I have attached a zip-archive with a example of using russian letters and
> a russian ttf-fonts "baltica". I think this file is not very large.
> 
> Please write me by e-mail: bd### [at] nicaru
> Thanking you in anticipation
>                       Dmitry

There is a patched version of POV-Ray v3.1 that *should* be able to
handle this type of font. You will have to have use this custom
executable pvengine.exe file instead of the one that comes with
the official version of the program. I am not positive it will
work but if I understand the problem correctly it should. This
patch will also have all of the features that comes with the
official version so you can use the new features avaiable in
POV-Ray v3.1.

You can download this patch from the following location (bottom of page)-
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/unipatch/


-- 
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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P.S. In the future please do not post binary attachments in this
group. The appropriate group for this attachment would have been
povray.binaries.scene-files.

Thank you,

-- 
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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In article <38F### [at] pacbellnet>, lin### [at] povrayorg wrote:

> You can download this patch from the following location (bottom of page)-
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4453/unipatch/

MegaPOV also has this patch(at least, I assume that is what "Unicode 
font support and bugfixes" means):
http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm

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TAG(Technical Assistance Group) e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
Personal Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/
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When I rendered the scene in MegaPov, there were two rows of exclamation marks.
Brendan Ryan

Andrea Ryan wrote:

> I'm in the USA and some characters looked like dots, dashes, greater than and
> less than signs when I rendered the file.  I'm not sure what the problem is.
> Brendan Ryan
>
> Dmirty Bystrov wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there anybody fromRussia here?
> >
> > I am a programmer from Russia. I create computer graphics and
> > animation for educational programs. I use PovRay about four years.
> >
> > I used PovRay 3.00.msdos.wat-cwa. Now I want to use PovRay 3.1g, but I
> > have a problem with russian fonts. I was not able to use unicode fonts
> > in PovRay 3.0, but I used non-unicode fonts. Now I can not use russian
> > fonts entirely. Why? I think that a code page does not check with the
> > russian code page. For Windows 95 the russian code page is 1251.
> > PovRay 3.1 has a lot of new and I would like to use it. What must I do
> > to render russian letters with PovRay 3.1? Please, help me.
> >
> > I have attached a zip-archive with a example of using russian letters and
> > a russian ttf-fonts "baltica". I think this file is not very large.
> >
> > Please write me by e-mail: bd### [at] nicaru
> > Thanking you in anticipation
> >                       Dmitry
> >
> >                 Name: fonts.zip
> >    fonts.zip    Type: Zip Compressed Data (application/x-zip-compressed)
> >             Encoding: x-uuencode

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In article <38F### [at] pacbellnet> , Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet>  
wrote:
> There is a patched version of POV-Ray v3.1 that *should* be able to
> handle this type of font. You will have to have use this custom
> executable pvengine.exe file instead of the one that comes with
> the official version of the program. I am not positive it will
> work but if I understand the problem correctly it should. This
> patch will also have all of the features that comes with the
> official version so you can use the new features avaiable in
> POV-Ray v3.1.

In article <38FA1FCC.B9897553@global2000.net> , Andrea Ryan
<ary### [at] global2000net>  wrote:
> When I rendered the scene in MegaPov, there were two rows of exclamation
> marks.

Both unofficial versions will be able to render the Russian characters
provided with the correct input.  You cannot use Windows 8 bit encoding of
Russian characters, you need to convert the file to Unicode UTF8 encoding
(sorry, don't know about such tools for Windows).  All you need then is an
Unicode font.


     Thorsten


PS: As usual, in the future POV-Ray 3.5 will fix the font problems (at least
as far as it is possible).

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