[PD] [text3d] & video subtitling in Pd

[J Oliver]

Indeed pd 0.42-5. One of my old versions.

thanks!

J

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Jaime Oliver
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Columbia University






On Oct 7, 2012, at 3:57 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

> On 10/07/2012 06:51 AM, J Oliver wrote:
>> that's a bit weirder and might well be a bug in Gem.
>>> please send a patch that exhibits this problem.
>> 
>> Attached
>> 
> 
> 
> your patch is encoded in some ISO-8859 encoding, while Gem expects a
> UTF-8 encoded string with the "text" message.
> 
> this most likely hints, that you are using an older version of Pd
> (<0.43). one of the biggest things about Pd-0.43 is probably it's full
> UTF-8 support, which should fix all these problems.
> 
> i converted your patch file to UTF-8, and now it works ok:
> $ iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t UTF-8 accents.pd > accents-UTF8.pd
> 
> as another check, i switched my keyboard layout to hebrew and entered
> the text via a symbolbox and it displayed just fine (though it got the
> font-direction wrong; but it's probably best to leave bidirectional text
> handling out of Gem's scope and move that to a separate external).
> 
> for those tests i was using the stock debian packages (puredata-0.43.2-4
> & gem-0.93.3-5)
> 
> 
> fgmadr
> IOhannes
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