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Czech Please!
In an attempt to design a typeface that has broader international use, I am gathering texts from many languages to test the font.
Below is a Czech translation of part of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. I am using it as an example. My problem is that I can't get some of the accented characters to work. At first I thought it was just my poor understanding of Opentype in preparing my font (which is still very likely) but the same problem exists no matter what font or what foundry I use. For instance the caroned and ringed characters don't compose
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30 May 2004 — 4:14pm
The encoding of the text that you posted is very strange. It is not Unicode. I suggest using some properly encoded text for your tests. A popular source of multilingual text is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that is available online in over 200 languages.
A.
30 May 2004 — 5:26pm
Thanks Adam, I will look for the text. Perhaps it is on the United Nations site.
Chris
30 May 2004 — 6:09pm
Adam,
IT WORKED!!! Thanks for your help!
Attached are samples in Polish & Czech:
Chris
30 May 2004 — 7:30pm
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/navigate/alpha.htm
Ciao.
30 May 2004 — 8:51pm
Thanks Alessandro
31 May 2004 — 9:19pm
Chris, get yourself a Lego set that requires batteries. You'll find a nice, everyday sort of text, provided in 29 languages (in 6 scripts) about what not to do with batteries. It's not too long though.
And specifically for Czech, a great source is the PDFs of back issues of TYPO magazine:
http://www.magtypo.cz/
Bottom-right.
hhp
1 Jun 2004 — 4:26pm
Hrant,
>get yourself a Lego set that requires batteries. You'll find a nice, everyday sort of text, provided in 29 languages (in 6 scripts) about what not to do with batteries.<
LOL!!! And thanks for the link as well.
ChrisL