Re: Poor localization in terms of font tables in NCL

From: <ekin_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Mon Jul 25 2011 - 01:54:19 MDT

Dear Mary,

I thank you for your interest on the problem. For sure, I will look for
and inform you soon regarding the set of characters that might help on the
matter.

Best,

Ekin

> Hi Ekin,
>
> I've opened a ticket on your request (NCL-1168), but unfortunately I
> can't guarantee when something like this will be finished. I don't
> believe it is a simple task to add new font tables to NCL, especially
> if you are talking about the "filled" fonts which are nicer for
> publication.
>
> What would really help is if you could point us to a standard set of
> Turkish characters you'd like to see implemented.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Mary
>
> On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:57 AM, ekin@ims.metu.edu.tr wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> NCL/NCARG is now at version 6, however, a font table is still
>> lacking to
>> produce special characters with accents, umlauts and also Turkish
>> "i". The
>> only way to produce such characters is an ugly, but clever hack:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/text_14.ncl. And there
>> appears to be no way to produce Turkish "i" as far as I tried. I
>> believe
>> this feature request should not be delayed anymore in such a decent
>> tool
>> like NCL/NCARG. It is only a new font table to be added to include
>> such
>> characters.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ekin
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