nanogui: problem with japanese fonts
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] problem with japanese fonts
From:
"ravi kumar" ####@####.####
Date:
6 Jul 2007 05:12:09 +0100
Message-Id: <4ec498290707052112p52957231sc9ae6262e5ff6ed8@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
Thanks a lot for ur reply,
Can i use .ttf fonts to display the japanese character.Actually i had a CD
which contains five japanese fonts in .ttf format ,how can i use these
format in fontdemo application... Or do we need to convert these fonts into
some other fonrmat (like .pcf or .fnt).Waiting for ur reply please........
Best Regards,
Ravi Kumar.T
On 7/5/07, Greg Haerr ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> > I have enabled the japanese font support in the config file and
> compiled
>
> Are you talking about the DBCS support, we don't otherwise
> have "japanese" support, per se.
>
>
> > the microwindows. I changed the fontdemo.c file to take the japanese
> font
> > present in the fonts/japanese directory and compiled the microwindows .
> When
> > i ran the fontdemo application i am getting the folloowing errors..
> > fnt_createfont: fonts/japanese/jiskan16-2000-1.bdf,3 not found
> > fnt_createfont: fonts/japanese/jiskan16-2000-1.bdf,4 not found
> > fnt_createfont: fonts/japanese/jiskan16-2000-1.bdf,5 not found
> > fnt_createfont: fonts/japanese/jiskan16-2000-1.bdf,6 not found
>
> The system doesn't work with raw .bdf fonts, they need to
> be converted to .fnt or .pcf format first. Use "convbdf -f"
> to convert .bdf fonts to .fnt format.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
