[Gambas-user] Gambas does not print specific letter

[Benoit Minisini]

On vendredi 06 juin 2008, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> This is a strange thing affecting Gambas 1 (I have not converted this
> app to Gambas 2 yet).
>
> For an application, there are several forms using the font Palatino. One
> of our students is from Turkey, and there are several special letters in
> Turkish. In her name, there is a capital S with a cedille under it and a
> lowercase i without the dot (to be found under Latin-A). The program
> prints into a ps file.
>
> With this font (others are ok!), the lowercase i without dot is printed
> correctly, but the capital S with cedille just disappears. The same font
> prints all these letters correctly in other applications like OOo, and
> in Gucharmap I can see that it definitely contains these letters. The
> temporary ps file does not contain this letter, and of course it won't
> be printed then... That means, it doesn't leave the Gambas printing engine.
>
> By the way, the capital S thing is C59E in UTF-8, it is saved as such in
> the file (I checked it) and thus should print (well, yes it does with
> other fonts, just not in Palatino).
>
> Anyone here had such a problem? Benoit, did the printing engine change
> from version 1 to 2, so the problem might go away by converting the
> project?
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Rolf
>

I don't know, just ask Trolltech. Font support in Qt is sometimes strange, so 
to fix your problem, I can't tell you more than using another font...

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini