Can tabula deal with Chinese characters? - cjk

I got the following WARNING message:
No Unicode mapping for CID+2716 (2716) in font KMNIME+DFHei-Md-80-GB
Is tabula able to deal with font KMNIME+DFHei-Md-80-GB ??
Cheers

Yes, tabula definitely can work with Chinese characters, maybe it's because of your charset setting of your computer. Try adding -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 to your java command

Some files have non-standard mappings of Unicode code points to font glyphs. It is usually quite difficult to remap them.
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Do you know if such font already exists?
It should be very simple to make it with FontForge and scripting. But it is hard for me to get into FontForge and Unicode docs. If someone is fluent in FontForge, could you teach me, or just make this kind of font. I assume it is, what, like 50 script lines on Python?
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VB6 program on Windows 8.1 fails to print Hebrew with Printer.Print

I have an old program written in VB6.
I am trying to get it work right on Windows 8.1.
Everything works, except sending text in Hebrew to the printer.
The printer prints "???" instead of Hebrew characters.
It is obvious that this is an encoding problem, but I don't find a way to solve it.
The program works on Windows 7 without any problem!
the relevant code:
Printer.Font.Charset = 177 'Hebrew encoding
Printer.Print "<text in Hebrew>"
Printer.EndDoc
If someone has an advice, I will appreciate it a lot.
Thanks!
It usualy means the font used does not have those characters. Arial has stuff like גּוּלּ֧֧֧֯.
object.FontName [= font]
The FontName property syntax has these parts:
Part Description
object An object expression that evaluates to an object in the Applies To list.
font A string expression specifying the font name to use.
Remarks
The default for this property is determined by the system. Fonts available with Visual Basic vary depending on your system configuration, display devices, and printing devices. Font-related properties can be set only to values for which fonts exist.
In general, you should change FontName before setting size and style attributes with the FontSize, FontBold, FontItalic, FontStrikethru, and FontUnderline properties.
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the warning is as below,
"failed to translate characters from US-ASCII to UTF-8: check INPUT_ENCODING"
I am running doxygen over a c++project
New to doxygen and do not know how to proceed.
Help. Thanks.
Somewhere in your code you're using a special character that is not converting correctly. Are there any non-English words or other likely sources of special characters?
http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/config.html#cfg_input_encoding

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My font is very specific, text is in Devanagari script.
I have the file, I have the font, now, please suggest me a tool or technique. Thanks.
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Does anybody know a set of typefaces that altogether cover the whole Unicode character range? we know that it is impossible to display all unicode characters using just one or two fonts. But probably, we can find a set of fonts using them the whole Unicode range could be displayed. Does anybody have any experience?
Thank you so much in advance.
One way to find such set of fonts is to look into Windows Font Linking. If you take a look at the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink you'll see fonts that "link" to cover the complete Unicode set.
as far as i know Arial Unicode is one of the full.
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