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@sealover94:
That has NOTHING at all to do with fonts, and there's nothing (probably, read the bold text at the end of the post) you can do about it. Heres why:
By default, 7-bit encoding is used for SMS messages. 7-bit means that every character is sent as 7 bits (1 or 0) in a row. 7 bits per character mens that only 128 (2^7) characters are possible. Since 7-bit is also known as ASCII, and A in ASCII stands for American, it only has room for the English alphabet and a lot of other characters like dots, commas, brackets etc. Using 7-bit means that every SMS can be up to 128*160 = 20480 bits long.
However, when you type with Greek letters, they don't fit in the 7 bits used, so a "better" encoding is used. The other encoding uses more bits per character, so to fit in the same amount of total bits, less characters can be entered. There are localized versions of the ASCII table (which just skips some of the less used characters in the normal table, like { for example). However, it seems no better than that the greek localization of the P990 doesn't use a localized 7-bit encoding (other phones might, I'm not sure).
If you're using English localization of the phone, it's not very strange, though, since the phone then naturally uses the standard English ASCII.
P.S. I'm no expert on how SMS messages work, but I know quite a lot about text encodings... Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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[ This Message was edited by: firetech on 2007-01-05 12:52 ]
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Posted: 2007-01-05 13:49:32
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I think that there is a way to send long (160) greek messages (7bit), on the condition to use only capital letter. Have a look at the following table:
http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/default_alphabet.html
I think that the above method is widely used in all greek phones. And our demand from SE is to apply this method to the P990.
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Posted: 2007-01-13 08:07:52
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For some unknown reason, the font changing does not work with me! I followed the step by step instructions! I already had a folder on my memory stick called "resource" with two subfolders in it: "help" and "apps" so I just added another subfolder called "fonts" and added my new and re-named fonts to that, but it did not work.
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Posted: 2007-01-13 10:28:38
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It works now. The reason was that I had named the files .ttf and it ended up making them .ttf.ttf so that is why it would not work. When naming the fonts, make sure to name them without the .ttf at the end.
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Posted: 2007-01-13 11:11:49
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@Laetitya
There is a setting in Windows to not show known file endings (E.G. '.ttf'), which is on by default. The correct advice to give here is to only have .ttf in the end of the filename if it was there borefore you renamed the file.
Anyway, to change this (first thing I do with a new Windows...), Open Windows Explorer, go to View > Folder Options and in that box, uncheck 'Hide file endings for known file types' or something in that fashion.
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Posted: 2007-01-13 13:34:56
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after I played with different fonts styles and installed the one I like, now it looks like the default font chosen is Bold, not the regular.
So there is no way to see when you read something or not. For example in the RSS reader, typically once you read a news, it turns from bold to regular. Similar with the messages and emails. This way u know what has been read and what not.
By using the new fonts it looks like this ability is turned off, as the font is bold on both cases. Of course, when I revert back to the default fonts, it all works fine (but I do NOT like those fonts anymore now....
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Does anybody know how to go around this issue?
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Posted: 2007-01-31 16:37:59
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Hmm, same problem here. Had to go back to the original. Blaa
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Posted: 2007-01-31 17:36:43
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On 2007-01-31 17:36:43, Tail wrote:
Hmm, same problem here. Had to go back to the original. Blaa
Does anyone has a solution to the above problem? I'm also having the same experience. It's really frustrating.
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Posted: 2007-02-26 08:02:36
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I did all you said in the guide, but nothing happens...... ;-(((
I already have directory in memory stick called resource, but in it I have 2 more subdirectories: plugins and apps.
What should I do more?
10x
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Posted: 2007-03-13 20:07:04
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read the guide one more time, and this time add the directory called "Fonts". Then place ur fonts of choice into this directory and then reboot.
Ur issue is that u do not have that directory, the Fonts.
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Posted: 2007-03-13 20:14:05
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