[bt-devel] Fonts question - update

[Fred Saalbach]

I solved half of my problem.  I was able to install the Bitstream
Cyberbit font so that bibletime recognized it.  Then I tried to open up
two bibles that are supposedly encoded in unicode - thaiKJV, and
ChiGUs.  The result in both cases is a display area full of question
marks (with verse numbers).  I also tried IGNT but in this case get a
blank display window showing only verse numbers.

Has anyone tested any of the modules that use non western fonts and been
able to get them to display correctly?  If there is a particular font
that is needed I should mention it in the fonts section of the handbook.

I did check this font (Bitstream Cyberbit) and it does contain the
correct symbol set for these modules.  I did not check these modules in
M$windows to see how they display.

Question If a user needed to use one encoding for one display window say
unicode, and another like iso 8859-2 for a second display window is this
possible?  Could this encoding selection be automatic at some future
revision of bibletime?

Fred Saalbach

Fred Saalbach wrote:
> 
> In researching what I want to write on the fonts dialog, I decided to
> try to load a UTF-8 unicode true type font.  In this case the Cyberbit
> font.  I am unable so far to get the font to show up on the fonts
> section of the BibleTime options dialog.  Are to font names loaded from
> the fonts present in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory, or is this
> coded into BibleTime?
> 
> Mandrake apparently does not ship with a unicode font, or if it does,
> none of the fonts I have loaded on my computer that support the less
> used languages match the entries in the fonts table in the BibleTime
> options dialog.
> 
> Fred Saalbach