Re: XForms: Chinese fonts

From: T.C. Zhao (tc_zhao@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 08 2000 - 10:25:12 EDT

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    # To subscribers of the xforms list from "T.C. Zhao" <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> :

    xforms does not support 2-byte font at the moment.

    --- Eduardo Lluna <elluna@saincotrafico.com> wrote:
    > # To subscribers of the xforms list from Eduardo Lluna
    > <elluna@saincotrafico.com> :
    >
    > Hello:
    >
    > I'm trying to show chinese texts using xforms and I am not able to
    > do.
    >
    > I have the fonts on my system, I load the font with:
    >
    > fl_set_font_name(16,
    > "-isas-fangsong
    > ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-?-72-c-0-gb2312.1980-0");
    >
    > The functions returns 0, that means ok. Then I change the font used
    > in
    > some labels to 16 (the number of the chinese loaded font). Then the
    > labels
    > disappear. I can not see any of the label texts. The chinese strings
    > are
    > ok using the gb2312 font (I can read them with netscape).
    >
    > I've tried the same procedure with greek and cyrillic fonts and
    > works, I'm
    > not sure, but maybe the problem is that chinese fonts are two byte
    > character fonts.
    >
    > Is there anyone using chinese on xforms? It's possible to use?
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Eduardo
    >
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