Thanks warp for ur reply.
Let me tell u about that letter I want to put in an animated text.
This is a Latin letter. It looks like a "N" but with a tilde .
Like Spain is spelled in Spanish. (Espana)
Like Boy in espanish . Nino.

Thanks
Alfredo


Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Alfredo <ful### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> > I got Devinnei font and i wanna put a letter that in windows is ALT-164. So
> > if i add to my .pov file:
> >  global_settings { charset utf8 }
>
> > then i can get that letter?
>
>   AFAIK for utf8 to work with a ttf file the file has to have unicode
> mapping info in them. Most modern fonts do, but some very old ones probably
> don't.
>
>   And then, if you want a non-ascii character you have to give it to
> povray utf8-encoded. For this you need an editor which supports editing
> a utf8-encoded text file (no, I don't know if the winpov editor supports
> this; my guess is that it doesn't). I don't know right now of a unix editor
> which supports utf8 encoding.
>
>   Utf8 is an encoding for unicode characters which is different from
> the most common ISO-8859-1 encoding (which only supports character
> codes between 32 and 255) with all characters which code is >127.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

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