unicode and text3d

Having gone through a lot of this myself recently trying to display
Chinese characters, I can say with some confidence that jit.gl.text3d
does not have full Unicode support. I lucked out -- it supports big
5 Chinese text encoding -- & you might want to try out some other
arcane encodings that support the alphabet you're trying to use & see
if they work. It is also important to set your message boxes to the
font you want to use, as well as the object itself. I even found
with Chinese characters that I had to use a font that supported
Chinese to send the "font" message to jit.gl.text3d properly.

M

On May 19, 2006, at 14:04, farq farq wrote:

>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been banging me head against the wall for three days now
> trying to get text3d to display unicode fonts beyond ascii
> characters. Everything I do either causes text3d (or the matrix I
> am sending to it) to belch, or to convert the unicode into ascii.
>
> For eample, I can get the characters to Max through a text file
> (although I can't display them properly because max's screen font
> is not the font I am using) and I can put them into a
> jit.cellblock, but when I try to put them into a jit.matrix, the
> cells still have contents "0 0" - nothing gets loaded.
>
> I searched the forums and found a few mentions that didn't help
> me. either people suggested to try text3d for something else
> (without indications as to how), or they responded with a message like
>
> "You might find regexp or jit.regexp useful for your purposes."
> which again doesn't really tell me how to use regexp to get the
> characters into text3d.
>
> Either I'm missing something very fundamental (which is probably
> true) or this is a harder problem that I thought.
>
> Can someone give me an example of how to get a specific unicode
> character into text3d?
>
>