I have an application (a program to quiz me in Greek) that currently
outputs to stdout and reads from stdin. It prints its questions using
UTF-8, which comes out nicely on a properly configured xterm.
I would like to port this program to Windows (specifically, 98). I
wrote a new interface using FOX, only to discover that FOX has no
Unicode support. Having read that Tk 8.1 and later has UTF-8 support, I
thought I would give Tk a try.
I’ve got a TkText widget that I print my UTF-8 text to. The TkText
widget is set up to use the Athena font
(http://greekbible.com/fonts/athena.zip). However, the font comes out
very ugly, and the Greek text shows up as gibberish.
I’ve tried using Tk.fromUTF8() to use a different encoding; the best I
could come up with was with the Symbol font, and while this gives me all
the greek letters, it’s missing most of the accent marks that I need.
I tried Ruby 1.6.6 and 1.7.2 from rubycentral.com.
Any ideas?
Paul
I believe the font is the problem. I looked at it and it doesn’t
appear to be Greek. Try SPIonic, a true type font. It can be found
here: ftp://ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/windows/SPIONIC_.TTF
-M.
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:15:29 GMT, Paul Brannan pbrannan@atdesk.com wrote:
I’ve got a TkText widget that I print my UTF-8 text to. The TkText
widget is set up to use the Athena font
(Greek Bible). However, the font comes out
very ugly, and the Greek text shows up as gibberish.
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To e-mail: use the initials of my name and add “at felinism dot com”.
It’s a Unicode font, and has the characters I need, though they aren’t
in the first 256. I use it to read the text at greekbible.com.
I will try the font you suggest. I already tried another cp437 font
(and used fromUTF8 to convert the UTF8 strings to CP437), but it didn’t
help.
Paul
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:42:23PM +0900, Michael Vondung wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:15:29 GMT, Paul Brannan pbrannan@atdesk.com > wrote:
I’ve got a TkText widget that I print my UTF-8 text to. The TkText
widget is set up to use the Athena font
(Greek Bible). However, the font comes out
very ugly, and the Greek text shows up as gibberish.
I believe the font is the problem. I looked at it and it doesn’t
appear to be Greek. Try SPIonic, a true type font. It can be found
here: ftp://ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/windows/SPIONIC_.TTF
I realised this after I had a cup of coffee (actually, while I had it)
and was going to post a “never mind!”, but you already responded. 
-M.
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:16:47 GMT, Paul Brannan pbrannan@atdesk.com wrote:
It’s a Unicode font, and has the characters I need, though they aren’t
in the first 256. I use it to read the text at greekbible.com.
–
To e-mail: use the initials of my name and add “at felinism dot com”.