Problem with handling Unicode

[Soamp]

in fact I want to implement right to left language, according to thispage

my fonts converted using fontstudio, and I could load them correctly, but I don't access to characters between 0600 to 06ff as unicode characters in LUA.

eg. by using this line:

DrawText("\1586",200,200)

it will write "06" which is wrong character.

 

any suggestions please?

[Canardia]

You need to define a cross-reference table which associates unicode characters (value > 255) with ASCII characters. I've done that already for C++, and I could also add Lua version. Note that the arabic text is a right-to-left font and writing (it even reverses the cursor left and right keys in VS):

http://leadwerks.com/werkspace/index.php?/topic/1338-make-cyrrilic-font-in-le-solved/page__view__findpost__p__12508

[Soamp]

I will check it, thanks..

[Soamp]

well.. I checked that, but I could not get correct result.

I currently have unicode string for my character, just don't know how to define this strings as a unicode.

for example in python you can use this syntax to define a unicode:

U"65248" 

do you know how can I define this in LUA?

[Canardia]

You shouldn't need to define any codes, but just write the text as it is. You can write unicode russian, arabic, hebrew, etc...

Then you just give your string as a parameter to a function like str16to8() and it will convert it to ascii characters which are matching the Font Studio dds file.

When I wrote the arabic text, I had no idea or need to know what codes they actually are, I just wrote the text in english and used google translator to translate it to arabic.