Re: Russian Fonts

Thank you Valeri, I will examine the Qt layer for this purpose. Best regards, Dmitry

Fine, Valeri wrote:
> Hello Dmitri,
>
> You can do that right now if you use ROOT with Qt layer and Qt GUI:
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> I think the topics
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> http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4084
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> http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1512
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> do reply your message.
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> We (QtRoot project http://root.bnl.gov ) are going to upgrade the Qt layer for ROOT by July, 2007. (see ROOT Workshop 2007, http://root.cern.ch/root/R2007/Welcome.html,
> "QtRoot project status and examples of its use at STAR"
> http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=24&materialId=slides&confId=13356
> This version should extend the Qt "internationalization" facility ( see http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/i18n.html ) to the ROOT GUI components also. There is the "natural" constrain though. To achieve the full-fledged Qt-like "internationalization" the internal ROOT format for the strings has to be 16-bits UNICODE (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode ). The current ROOT internal format for the string is 8-bit.
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> I did not hear about any plan to lift that constrain and provide the Qt internationalization facility equivalent with no Qt layer yet.
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> With my best regards,
> Valeri Fine
>
>
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> From: owner-roottalk_at_pcroot.cern.ch on behalf of Dmitry Naumov
> Sent: Thu 4/5/2007 6:27 AM
> To: roottalk_at_cern.ch
> Subject: [ROOT] (no subject)
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>
> Hi Roottalk,
>
> We tried to use ROOT classes like TGTextEntry and similar for an X
> application with Russian language in that. We failed however to be able
> to enter the russian language. Examing in deep it looks like that there
> is always a check on 7 bit ascii symbols entering by a user which
> certainly excludes the possibility to enter other languages with 8 bits.
> I wonder if there is a way to rule out this problem or perhaps ROOT
> could allow to enter the Russian encoding in some near future? Many
> thanks in advance, Dmitry
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Received on Fri Apr 06 2007 - 17:10:03 CEST