From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T23:10:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk + UTF-8

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:42:23PM +0900, Michael Vondung wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:15:29 GMT, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >I've got a TkText widget that I print my UTF-8 text to.  The TkText
> >widget is set up to use the Athena font
> >(http://greekbible.com/fonts/athena.zip).  However, the font comes out
> >very ugly, and the Greek text shows up as gibberish.
> 
> I believe the font is the problem. I looked at it and it doesn't
> appear to be Greek. Try SPIonic, a true type font. It can be found
> here: ftp://ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/windows/SPIONIC_.TTF

It's a Unicode font, and has the characters I need, though they aren't
in the first 256.  I use it to read the text at greekbible.com.

I will try the font you suggest.  I already tried another cp437 font
(and used fromUTF8 to convert the UTF8 strings to CP437), but it didn't
help.

Paul