I am rendering a chinese chess set for a presentation and I need a list
of the character codes for the symbols. 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.

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No help on the chinese characters I'm afraid, but if you
are having trouble with the raytracing technology you
can use texture maps of the characters generated just
about anywhere...

If you need a 3D effect you can generate nice objects
using a height field and a high water level (90%).  I use
this trick to produce writing in fonts that POV doesn't
know about.

Sorry this isn't much help.  Good luck.

Anthony Bennett wrote in message <36A2854D.DE74EF1A@panama.phoenix.net>...
>I am rendering a chinese chess set for a presentation and I need a list

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Anthony Bennett wrote:
> 
> I am rendering a chinese chess set for a presentation and I need a list
> of the character codes for the symbols. 

Sounds like you need Unicode.   Info on it is available at
http://charts.unicode.org/ and the general intro is at
http://www.unicode.org/


The best brief but enlightening general intro to Unicode I've seen is in
the BeOS Developer's Guide, of all places.   

I don't know how you would relate unicode to povray rendering, but I
guess that's your problem...


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