Oem Character set - writing and lines

MikeEvans · Post by **MikeEvans** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:46 pm

We are evaluating Zeus editor and we have the following problem. We have a clipper-xharbour prg file typed in OEM - Greek 437 character set. Even with terminal font we can see greek letters and also the lines (box characters) but its not possible to write in Greek. If we try to use Let's say courrier fonts its possible to view-write-save in OEM Greek 437 but it's not possible to view the box characters. Any hints?

Thanks in advance
Mike Evans

Post by **jussij** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:06 am

Hi Mike,

In the Options Editor Options menu, Fonts panel there is Language dropdown list.

If you select Greek option from this list does it help

Cheers Jussi

Post by **jussij** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:20 am

Hi Mike,

As a test I selected the Terminal font with the Greek language conbination but at least on my machine this resulted in an Arial font rather than Terminal font being generated. I think this is the Windows font mapper trying to find the closest fitting font, since no exact matching font was available.

Unfortanetly this is an issue since the Arial font choosen is proportional and Zeus only supports monospaced fonts

Cheers Jussi

MikeEvans · Post by **MikeEvans** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:39 pm

jussij wrote:Hi Mike,

As a test I selected the Terminal font with the Greek language conbination but at least on my machine this resulted in an Arial font rather than Terminal font being generated. I think this is the Windows font mapper trying to find the closest fitting font, since no exact matching font was available.

Unfortanetly this is an issue since the Arial font choosen is proportional and Zeus only supports monospaced fonts

Cheers Jussi

Hi Jussi,
We have problem either way. If we use Terminal font with OEM character set we can see lines and Greek but its not possible to write in Greek. If we use Courier font (with proper read translation in the configuration) we can see Greek write Greek but its not possible to display lines. Also if we use Greek language we have the same problem as you (Arial maybe font and greek characters - lines displayed as garbage.

Thanks in advance
Mike Evans

Post by **jussij** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:13 pm

Hi Mike,

If you use another program to edit the file (i.e Notepad, WordPard, Word or some other text editor) is is possible to edit the Greek chracters and also display the lines correctly

If so, which tool allows you to do this and what font settings does it have defined

Also if you send me a small sample text file (i.e. use e-mail button below) containing Greek and lines I would be happy to do some testing into this issue.

Cheers Jussi

Post by **jussij** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:00 pm

This issue related to the fact that the user was entering Greek characters in UTF-8 format and that version of Zeus did not support UTF-8 files

This issue has been fixed in the current Zeus version, since it does have full support for UTF-8 files

Cheers Jussi