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Text to G-code?
vtsteam:
I've spent the morning trying to find a solution to your problem, Geoff. I use linux, so can't speak from a Windows perspective. I did notice that there were plenty of Thai ttl fonts, and that the fonts themselves were above 163. I did try F-engrave in WINE and had the same result coming from TTL as in Deskengrave. The ripping from graphic process was one I ddn't try because you specifically eschewed working through graphics in the first post. There are probably plenty of workarounds if you go graphic transfer, but that wasn't what you asked for.
vtsteam:
Seems to me that the problem might be solved if you tried a font that mapped the Thai characters to the lower ASCII range. I think there may be some out there.......
vtsteam:
I've just re-mapped a few characters indbtt.ttf to see whether it could be done and here's the result in DeskEngrave:
philf:
Hi again Geoff,
I've just tried a Thai font in Vectric Cut 2d and it seems to cope well with some random characters I copied from character map.
Of no use if you haven't got Cut 2d but it shows it can be done with the right software. I hope my random characters don't spell out anything bad!
Phil.
vtsteam:
Okay, I've done a full substitution of Thai glyphs for the English glyphs in the low ASCIIs, creating a new typeface (attached).
You should be able to run this in Deskengrave -- the only slight hiccup is you will see the English letters in the input line, but the output window and g-code resulting will be Thai.
Ps. you need to be using the English keyboard when typing the Thai characters into the Deskengrave program -- at least I did. Shouldn't be a problem if you touch type, or have keyboard stickers in place.
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