Re: [Freetype] [newbie/faq?] how can I display accented characters?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I just installed the beta-8 version of freetype2 on Linux 2.2.

Try release 2.0 instead (or even better, try the current snapshot).

> imported the "times.ttf" file from a computer running Win98, and I
> can display the typical ASCII character without any problems, but
> accented characters don't work, although the same font under Windows
> seems to support those characters.

More details, please.

> Can you give me any tip as to how I might solve this "problem"?
> Should I try a different font file? Or do the .ttf files from
> Windows contain all the necessary information and this is nothing
> but a question of knowing how to access it?

Everything should work out of the box -- can you display all
characters with ftview?


    Werner