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Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ????

From Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ????
Date 2012-03-07 23:24 +0100
Organization MW Software
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          castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Does anybody have a FREE RISC OS font that contains the
> Latin 2, ISO 8859-2 Central European characters in it ???

Trinity, Homerton, Corpus, for a start. They all contain the full 
Latin-2 set, and a few other Latin sets, too. Run !XChars, click on 
the tiny option button to the left of the font name and choose Latin-2 
encoding. That shows you what the font looks like when opened with 
Latin-2 encoding. If you had a word processor that supported font 
encodings you could use these characters in your documents, but sadly, 
our word processors do not allow you to choose the encoding.

In case of an emergency, you can type *alphabet latin2 on the command 
line to change the global system default and then all word processors 
will display and print the Latin2 characters in the above fonts 
instead of Latin1. Type *alphabet latin1 to switch back.

> I know that EFF does some, but I'm looking for one that
> could be made into a free download, complete with a
> keyboard driver.

I suppose what you want is not just a font that contains the Latin-2 
characters as you requested above, but a Latin-2 font that is directly 
encoded in Latin-2, so you can use it in applications that do not know 
about encodings and simply open the font in its default encoding.

I have never seen one apart from those by EFF.

-- 
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner         MW Software      http://www.mw-software.com/
        RISC OS Software for Design, Printing and Publishing
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Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? castlevarich <castlevarich@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 09:25 -0800
  Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-07 23:24 +0100
    Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 09:45 +0000
      Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 12:07 +0100
        Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 12:11 +0000
          Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Grahame Parish <maillist.parish@millers-way.net> - 2012-03-08 12:43 +0000
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 14:13 +0100
              Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 19:03 +0100
        Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 12:56 +0000
          Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 17:10 +0000
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-08 19:13 +0100
            Re: Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Brian Carroll <bric-nospam@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 20:10 +0000
              Latin 2 fonts on RISC OS anybody ???? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 21:23 +0000

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