RE: Russian Fonts

From: Fine, Valeri <fine_at_bnl.gov>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:44:41 -0400

You can play with the Windows ready-to-eat binary available to download from http://root.bnl.gov (do not forget to edit the "$ROOTSYS/etc/system.rootrc" to replace "iso8859-1" with iso8859-5")

Hope this helps

Best Regards

                         Valeri Fine

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Naumov [mailto:naumov_at_nusun.jinr.ru]
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:10 AM
> To: Fine, Valeri
> Cc: roottalk_at_cern.ch
> Subject: Re: [ROOT]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:
> >
> > 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&amp;materialId=sli de
> s&amp;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
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > 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 Fri Apr 06 2007 - 17:44:51 CEST