POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Double-byte font trouble : Re: Double-byte font trouble Server Time
28 Jul 2024 12:24:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Double-byte font trouble  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 18 Jan 1999 13:52:30
Message: <36a382ee.0@news.povray.org>
In article <36A34630.E37F86FA@panama.phoenix.net> , Anthony Bennett
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet>  wrote:

>I am rendering a chinese chess set for a presentation and I need a list
>of the character codes for the symbols. In my experiments I've had
>trouble like
>the guy in the previous message. I don't know a word of chinese,
>I don't own a chinese computer or anything, but I HAVE GOT TO GET THIS
>THING DONE. Please, whoever can help, I implore you... Help me. 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
>
>information all day. I'm really tired. Help me.

Currently POV-Ray does not support two byte characters (Unicode) at all. Only ASCII
codes (0 to 127) work for most fonts.


    Thorsten


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