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ifotinos
greek text
Dec 11th, 2009, 6:45pm  
hello, i have no idea on how to view greek text using the text() function. Processing just does not recognize it. In case of: text("sth in greek+sth in english",50,50) or print("sth in greek+sth in english") the only thing i get is the english part. In fact the real problem is that if i try to make a vlw file after checking the all characters box (in order for the greek characters to be converted) i get a memory error after processing using over 100% of my cpu. The set limit is of my ram memory is at 2048 mb. Does anybody has a vlw file with greek characters or knows another way to solve the problem? I have an imac at 2.16 / 3gb so this is not the problem or at least i think so. thanksssss!!!
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Cedric
Re: greek text
Reply #1 - Dec 11th, 2009, 6:57pm  
did you search for "greek" i did
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/num_1163019721.html

maybe that works for you
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ifotinos
Re: greek text
Reply #2 - Dec 11th, 2009, 7:35pm  
i did too but i dont have a vlw font, i keep geting the same error / except i understood something wrong
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Cedric
Re: greek text
Reply #3 - Dec 11th, 2009, 7:49pm  
works fine, when i use this sketch...

PFont f;

void setup() {
 f = createFont("ArialMT",22);
}

void draw() {
 background(0);
 textFont(f,22);  
 text("\u03A8\u03B5\u03C3!", 10, 20);
}


i get some weird greek symbols
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PhiLho 
Re: greek text
Reply #4 - Dec 12th, 2009, 2:19am  
See problem - unicode string in P2D and P3D mode.
Exporting a whole font with lot of characters is a bad idea, you have to select the characters of interest or use a specialized font.
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ifotinos
Re: greek text
Reply #5 - Dec 12th, 2009, 4:21am  
cendric this was really helpful, is this font greek only? It works for me but how do i use a different one? PhiLho, how can i select only the letters i want? I do not think that i could do it with processing. I will see later what is your link about.
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ifotinos
Re: greek text
Reply #6 - Dec 14th, 2009, 10:15am  
it just does not work with the p3D renderer but you already know this and i can not understand much from the link Philho posted. trebani's example only works for hangul but i am sure it can work for me too after an improovment or two.
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PhiLho 
Re: greek text
Reply #7 - Dec 15th, 2009, 3:34am  
Yes, it isn't so hard. You just have to find a font with Greek chars (lot of fonts have it), localize the ranges of interest for you (a tool like BabelMap is precious here) and adapt the constants to your needs.
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ifotinos
Re: greek text
Reply #8 - Dec 15th, 2009, 6:01am  
you were write! thank you very much for your time + help.
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