[sldev] UTF-8 open source fonts

[Lawson English]

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Lawson English wrote:
> I've been playing with llSetText and found that various characters 
> that display in my Mac's character input pallet don't  display 
> properly in llSetText OR in chat/IM.
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> A little more research revealed that different people with  clients on 
> different OS's or even the same OS show different subsets of chars.
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> The problem appears to be that the included ASCII fonts are 
> supplemented on-the-fly with whatever is available on the local OS, 
> but whatever algorithm is being used to choose those supplemental 
> characters doesn't always work.
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> Linden Labs should standardize on existing open source unicode fonts 
> such as those found here:
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> http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/
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> Time would be better spent deciding which open source fonts should be 
> distributed with SL, including the possibility of creating  
> llSetFont(font) and llSetTextSize(size) for llSetText's use, and base 
> any text-handling on THOSE fonts, rather than trying to perfect the 
> code to grab whatever fonts are available on the OS. At the very 
> least, having a standard distribution of multi-language fonts would 
> make it easier to cobble together unicode support on-the-fly and make 
> any future text-handling code easier to write and maintain since a 
> known multi-language set of fonts will always be available in any SL 
> distribution.
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