Re: ISOLatin2

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,
On 2002-09-18 12:13:09 +0200 Miroslav Novy <mnovy@ales.cz> wrote:

> Hi,
> I experience a problem with displaying of a symbol in ISOLatin2 under GNU
> step (base-1.4.1, gui-0.8.0, back-0.8.0).
> At using iso8859-2 font is displayed * instead of  diacritical marks


If you are using x11 backend then try:

   > defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask '*-iso8859-2'
   > font_cacher

This will ensure that only latin-2 fonts will be used in gnustep applications.

I will recomend you to use the art backend, I have no problems with encoding 
and it has better font rendering (antialiasing).
   > cd core/back
   > ./configure --enable-graphics=art
You have to have libart2 and freetype libraries installed.

You will do best if you get fresh CVS sources.

> (ISOLatin2 symbols). My next question is if it is possible to generate a
> localizable file from the application.

Use make_strings *.[hm] to extract strings to (for example) 
Czech.lproj/Localizable.latin2.strings.
Then after translating that file, convert it from Latin2 encoding into UTF 
encoding:

cvtenc -Encoding "ISO Latin-2 East European (ISO-8859-2)"\
      -EscapeIn NO -EscapeOut YES \
      Localizable.latin-2.strings > Localizable.strings

Stefan