Dmitri Ivanov wrote:

> Hello!
>
> In my Window Control Panel, MS Sans Serif (size 8) font is specified for
> both Message Text and Menu Item elements. Regional Setting are Russian.
>
> In Allegro I've got:
>
> CG-USER(109): *locale*
> #<locale "Russian_Russia" [:CRLF-1251-BASE] @ #x20c22ad2>
> CG-USER(110): (message-font)
> #.(MAKE-FONT-EX NIL "MS Sans Serif / ANSI" 11 NIL)
> CG-USER(112): (menu-font)
> #.(MAKE-FONT-EX NIL "MS Sans Serif / ANSI" 11 NIL)
>
> This seems not corresponding to OS locale language. The net effect is
> that text in Russian is rendered incorrectly when used in the prompt
> argument for the functions:
>     pop-up-message-dialog  or  ask-user-for-choice.
> Although, specifying strings in Russian for button arguments works all
> right.
>
> I'd like to change these two settings to something like
>     #.(make-font-ex :swiss "MS Sans Serif / Russian" 13 nil)
> In what way?
> ---
> Sincerely,
>    Dmitri Ivanov
>    www.aha.ru/~divanov
>
> P.S. AFAIR other vital fonts could be set as (configuration *system*)
> properties, e.g.
> custom-status-bar-font or custom-tooltip-font.
>
> Version: ACL6.0 Trial (allegro-ansi).
> System: Windows NT 4 sp6

Recently I was sending a bug-report to Franz Inc. that is in my opinion
related to this problem (see attachment) as well; unfortunately still not
having an answer.

It seems that CG has to be somewhat more robust regarding these issues and
perhaps it would require some coding-work to implement it...

Bye.   <pb>