True type fonts in Windows 2000

[sandala75 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I created a CD-ROM in french. I have problems with accents (èàê) that don't appear properly.
I cannot replace my text with bitmap because the content appears dynamically from a V12 database.
And even if I import the font with the complete characters set, it doesn't work.

I know after reading some topics of that forum, that I need tu use a true type font. I use Arial that is a true type font until Windows 98, but not anymore since Windows 2000 (version that I use).
I tried to copy the Arial font from Windows 98 to Windows 2000, but it becomes aotomatically an Open font. I thought I could buy a True type font on the web, but I am not sure it will still be a true type under Windows 2000. Do you have a suggestion ?

Thanks.

[SafariTECH]

Open fonts are fine to use - I use them all the time and have no problems using the accents etc.


The trick is to make sure you use the ALT+{code} when inputting the special characters into the database - if you copy/paste from a document using a different characters set and/or font it will usually screw it up. It may mean some manual labour unless you can setup the source document to use the exact same character set as both Director and the DB. (but it does work)


if you open the Character Map on Win2K and choose ARIAL, it is an Open font and defaults to Unicode. Unicode is not properly supported in Director.

Look at é ... now switch the Character Set to "Windows: Western" ... you will see that the é is mapped to a different location. This is why Director does different things with certain fonts.

However - if you look at the ALT code for both Character Sets, they both specify ALT+0233 even though they are mapped to different locations.


The next thing to check is whether the DB itself is changing the information! If a DB does not support the Character Set you are using it will remap to the next character set which may change character locations!??


If you are using the French Keyboard designation to enter the French information, this will also cause you a headache because the keyboard will be mapped to the Unicode set.




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