[V4MD] Stopping character remapping

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 9/22/03 5:48 PM, Marcus Bointon at marcus at synchromedia.co.uk wrote:

>> on 9/16/03 18:03, Marcus Bointon at marcus at synchromedia.co.uk wrote:
>>> These are proper fonts, developed specifically for my (extremely large and
>>> well-known!) client, not just system ones. It just seems that Director
>>> screws them up when going x-plat.
>> 
>> I wonder, why you think that this is Director but not Valentina ?
> 
> A belated reply...
> 
> Because it does it outside Valentina too. If I generate a list of all chars
> 32-255, paste it into a text field in Director, then compare it side by side
> (VPC is handy!) with a Windows version using the same embedded font, the
> characters it displays are mapped quite differently, and there are many
> missing on the Windows side. I have now obtained a correct Cyrillic font on
> Windows - it doesn't have nearly as many missing characters, but I've
> manually mapped one platform's characters to the other, and the mapping is
> quite different to Director's usual mapping (it may be that the mapping is
> MacCyrillic to Windows-1251, instead of MacRoman to Windows-Latin1). I have
> no idea what Director is up to, but it really sucks!

I wonder, if it is possible for you to open .dir file
In some text editor and change manually map of translation?

I think you have see that map...

May be this trick will help you?

Before do big work, try change one char only and see if Director will not
override your changes

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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