Ron Parker wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:52:27 -0600, Thorsten Froehlich
>         <fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> wrote:
> >In article <36A34630.E37F86FA@panama.phoenix.net> , Anthony Bennett
> ><ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet>  wrote:
> >>I don't
> >>even know how to get the superpatch to output these characters. I don't
> >>even know if I'm using a double byte font. I'm trying to do it with
> >>MingLiU, which popped up after I installed the traditional chinese
> >>multilanguage add-on for Explorer. Help me. Somebody. I've tried to find
> >
> >Currently POV-Ray does not support two byte characters (Unicode) at all. Only ASCII
> >codes (0 to 127) work for most fonts.
>
> That's why he mentioned the Superpatch :)  It does include Kochin
> Chang's patches for DBCS fonts, and an attempt at handling Unicode
> characters, but to tell the truth I've never been able to get the
> Unicode stuff to work, and I don't have ready access to a DBCS
> font for testing.  I'll look into this a little harder and post
> my findings here, unless somebody beats me to it.

Well, if you have Windows 95 or NT and HTTP, then you do have ready access. If you go
to
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ and get to the downloads for IE 3, the extras have
'Multilanguage support' down there somewhere. They are simply sets of standard MS
Windows NLS files and fonts bundled up. Pan-European, Korean, Chinese & Japanese.
These
are really more of Windows suppliments than just IE components.

Also, for personal use/evaluation, you can get a Unicode font from Bitstream
(Bitstream
Cyberbit).

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