Problem with Font Characters

Movieboykutay · Post by **Movieboykutay** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:27 am

I am Turkish and I want to make my video Turkish. When I clikced at "Title" I wanted to write a word with the letter "ı" (Turkish Letter) on the video. But when I clicked "ı" it wrote "y" with a "'". And when I clicked at "ğ" it wrote an "o" whick has a line like "Q". Could you please help me! When I was using the trial version there were Turkish Characters. Now I bought th eprogram (11.5 Plus) but I can't find the options of characters. I really love your program! Please help me.

Movieboykutay · Post by **Movieboykutay** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:51 pm

Anyone can help me?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:16 pm

Try creating the titles in a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word or Works. Then copy those titles and paste them into VS.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:36 pm

I was going to reply to this one originally, as I did last year -- you will recall -- when we had a long thread about Nordic characters. The solution then depended on the keyboard layout, with the US standard keyboard apparently allowing what you suggested.

Anyway, yesterday, when I first saw this post, I opened Word for Windows, inserted a variety of symbols I know to be Turkish (I once started studying the language for a diplomatic assignment to Ankara...) Then I tried copying them to a Title in X2. The ones mentioned by Movieboykutay simply would not copy over but substituted straight Western European letters. The others, with umlauts over them, ö ü etc, or c cedilla ç, copied because (I am speculating here) they are directly in the ANSI set of characters. But the others require a rather unusual form of inserting them in Word which I had never used before...

So that is why I did not reply yesterday as I could think of nothing which would make it work, and indeed am surprised that Movieboy actually got it to work with the trial version...

babdi · Post by **babdi** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:32 am

Did you try copying from character map of windows ?
You can copy paste these characters directly into video studio title lines.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:50 am

I just tried the Character Map, but those specific characters, when copied from the Character Map, insert into a VS title as G and i. Given the prevalence of both letters in the Turkish written language, this is not, unfortunately, a workable solution. (The Word for Windows Symbol route in any case, as far as I am aware, draws on the Windows Character Map in any case...)

My experiment was, of course, using a US keyboard, and it may just be possible that using a European/Turkish keyboard with the Character Map could produce different results.

babdi · Post by **babdi** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:40 pm

Ken Berry
As you rightly said using Turkish keyboard in combination with character map may give the desired result

John Moran_2 · Post by **John Moran_2** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:41 am

Movieboykutay wrote:I am Turkish and I want to make my video Turkish. When I clikced at "Title" I wanted to write a word with the letter "ı" (Turkish Letter) on the video. But when I clicked "ı" it wrote "y" with a "'". And when I clicked at "ğ" it wrote an "o" whick has a line like "Q". Could you please help me! When I was using the trial version there were Turkish Characters. Now I bought th eprogram (11.5 Plus) but I can't find the options of characters. I really love your program! Please help me.

I find these character set problems more interesting than video, but don't see a pattern here yet. Is the "i" you want really dotless? Can you give a few more examples? If you have not yet found Windows Character Map, look in Windows Help to find it under the Accessories>System tools on the Start menu. Then give us a few more hints.

One thing I noticed is that Turkish is NOT directly supported as a Unicode subset on my Vista laptop, so that means it may be necessary to revert to Windows:Turkish (and perhaps add Turkish support for non-unicode programs in Control Panel>Regional settings). Dos:Turkish does not seem to be in play here with the characters you have given.

But for a few Video Titles, it should be possible to poke around all the available fonts in Character Map and paste out the ones you need with Copy from Character Map and Ctrl+V on the VS Title screen. If all else fails, you may need to go to the Latin subset of Unicode and poke around until you find the characters you need.
Good luck,
JM_2

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:50 am

Just a suggestion....
If you can create the titles in a word processor then instead of copy/pasting the characters into VideoStudio hit the [PrtSc] key on the computer keyboard and this will place a copy of the screen on your Windows Clipboard.

Next open a photo editing program such as PhotoImpact, PaintShop Pro etc and paste the screen capture.
Crop the picture and then delete all the background leaving just the letters visible and create a transparent PNG file which you can then place onto an overlay track in VideoStudio.

Perhaps not the ideal solution but a work round.

John Moran_2 · Post by **John Moran_2** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:51 am

Possibly (I think likely) OP is writing in Windows:Turkish, but is seeing characters in Windows: Western. If so, his description of the "Q like" character is inexact. In fact the "Q like" character may be Latin small letter "eth". Position of displayed eth would be U+00F0 (UxFO) in Windows:Western character set.

Latin small letter dotless I has a position of U+00FD (0xFD) and is called
Latin smal letter Y with acute in Windows:Western.

JM_2

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