Re: Russian Fonts

From: Dmitry Naumov <naumov_at_nusun.jinr.ru>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:50:14 +0400


Thank you very much, Valeri!
Best regards, Dmitry

Fine, Valeri wrote:
> 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
> ---------------
> Brookhaven National Laboratory
> Upton, NY 11973, USA
> Phone: +1 631 344 7806
> Fax: +1 631 344 4206
> E-mail: fine_at_bnl.gov
>
>
>> -----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 Mon Apr 09 2007 - 08:50:20 CEST

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