RE: Russian Fonts

Hello Dmitri,  

 You can do that right now if you use ROOT with Qt layer and Qt GUI:  

 I think the topics  

http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4084  

http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1512  

do reply your message.  

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.  

I did not hear about any plan to lift that constrain and provide the Qt internationalization facility equivalent with no Qt layer yet.  

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)

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 Received on Thu Apr 05 2007 - 15:03:07 CEST