I tried this out at the weekend for the first time.  Vincent's right 
that the patch applies cleanly to Tk 8.4.9 and not to later versions, 
but I don't think it would be all that difficult to make the changes by 
hand: only one or two hunks failed.

For myself, I was absolutely amazed at the improvement in the quality of 
the text display with the patch applied.  I remember that some concern 
was expressed about the speed of the display (though in my applications 
this was not a problem at all) which is why the patch has not been 
applied to the CVS.  If it isn't too difficult to re-work the patch to 
this end, perhaps the best solution would be to allow ATSU to be turned 
on or off from the script, rather like we do for anti-aliased text or 
QuickDraw graphics.

In the meantime, those not using it are definitely missing out on a 
wonderful piece of work.

Alastair

vincent rioux wrote:
>  re,
>  well, please disregard my last email, i just tried to compile 8.4.9 
>  considering the release date of the atsu8.4 patch, and it is actually 
>  working nicely!
>  many thanks for the tips,
>  vincent
> 
>  vincent rioux wrote:
> > Hi Alastair,
> > Just tried to compile tcltk with Benjamin's patch for unicode fonts 
> > display.
> > Tried it with 8.4.12 and then 8.4.10 with no success.
> > With the patch on tk8.4.10, i get numerous errors of non declared 
> > symbols.
> > Worse, without the patch i still can't compile tcltk8.4.10, at the 
> > very last compillation step, i get this:
> > ld: warning prebinding disabled because of undefined symbols
> > ld: Undefined symbols:
> > _TkpMeasureCharsInContext
> > _TkpDrawCharsInContext
> > I guess i must be wrong somewhere.
> > Is there a version of tcltk that is known to compile on 10.3 with 
> > this patch?
> > best regards,
> > vincent
> >
> >
> > Alastair Davies wrote:
> >> vincent,
> >>
> >> My understanding is that at present TkAqua cannot draw all Unicode
> >> characters, but that Benjamin Riefenstahl has developed a patch (see message
> >> below) to enable it to do so.  
> >>
> >> I hope this helps,
> >> Kind regards, Alastair
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl
> >> Sent: 18 March 2005 14:09
> >> Subject: Re: [MACTCL] Unicode in Aqua Tk
> >>
> >> Hi Linus,
> >>
> >> "Linus Nyberg" writes:
> >>   
> >>> I read something about ATSU not being easily pluggable into the Tk
> >>> structure, but I just want to know what the current status is...
> >>>     
> >>
> >> Unicode doesn't work satifactorily with the QuickDraw API used in the
> >> current Tk source.
> >>
> >> I wrote a patch for using ATSU instead, see
> >> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12997&atid=312997&func=detail&aid=
> >> 638966>.
> >> This implementation is slower than the QuickDraw based stuff in some
> >> situations, so I am working on optimizations, before this can go into
> >> CVS.  Unfortunately, optimizing and testing is going slow and I can
> >> only devote limited time to it.
> >>
> >> benny
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: vincent rioux
> >> Sent: 19 October 2005 12:24
> >>
> >> thank you for your reply.
> >> well, i already tried to change of font, but still it won't take this index.
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> from Tkinter import *
> >> import tkFont
> >> root = Tk()
> >> myFont = tkFont.Font(size=24, family='Junicode')
> >> w = Label(root, text=u'\u0254', font=myFont)
> >> w.pack()
> >> root.mainloop()
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> you can find junicode on the web:
> >> http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/junicode.html
> >>
> >> for the code of the character I wanted to display : 
> >> http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/docs/junicode_ipa.html
> >>
> >> by advance many thanks
> >> vincent
> >>
> >>
> >> Russell E. Owen wrote: 
> >> In article <4354C5DE.5030003@[...].org>,
> >>  vincent rioux <vincent.rioux@[...].org> 
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>   
> >> w = Label(root, text=u'\u0254')
> >> ...
> >> This should display an 'open o' of the IPA.
> >> It happens to work with python from FINK (hence using x11) but I just 
> >> can't get it to work on pythonw2.4/tcl-tk acqua. It will only display an 
> >> empty square....
> >>     
> >>
> >> My guess is that the font you are using is missing the character in 
> >> question. Try setting the font of the widget to something with a richer 
> >> character set.
> >>
> >> -- Russell
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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