Swedish characters

[Roland]

My code supports the game in different languages (actually English and Swedish for now, but its quite easy to add more languages). Switching language works just fine. However Ascii-characters above 0x7F are not rendered correctly or not at all. Is the any workaround or fix for this (C++)?

 

Question for Josh? Will Leadwerks be able to deal with extended character sets in the future?

[Josh]

I've never been able to get a straight answer from anyone on how to actually do this.

[martyj]

@Josh, how are you rendering strings in Opengl?

[Josh]

Well, you need the DrawText() command to accept the string you want to draw, so a wstring might be needed (but probably not for Swedish), and you need the font loading string to include those characters, which is currently an internal value:

if (family==Font::English)
{
familychars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890-=!@#$%^&*()_+[]\\{}|;':\",./<>? `~";
}

 

It might be possible to let the user input a loading string (and change that English constant into the string above, but it still won't work with anything that requires more than 256 letters.

[Josh]

Of course the font also has to have those letters.

[Roland]

Okay. So at the moment its not possible then (my font has the Swedish åäöÅÄÖ).

 

å (0xe5)

ä (0xe4)

ö (0xf6)

Å (0xc5)

Ä (0xc4)

Ö (0xd6)

 

 

Thanks for the answer

 

 

http://www.asciitabell.se/

[Josh]

I've added a new Font::Load() command that will accept any string of characters as the glyphs to pull from the font. However, I do not exactly know how this will work. It's all kind of strange to me, being a native English speaker everything else seems like some weird exception.

[Einlander]

Is there a reason to not simply convert all strings to wstring to allow utf8 in the fonts that allow them? Or have a global font settings that will take the restrictions off for those who know the risks? Maybe you might gain some customers using logogram based writing systems.

[Roland]

I've added a new Font::Load() command that will accept any string of characters as the glyphs to pull from the font. However, I do not exactly know how this will work. It's all kind of strange to me, being a native English speaker everything else seems like some weird exception.

Anything that can be tested?

[AggrorJorn]

I will be honest: I fully expected to see 3d models of Swedish people when I clicked on this topic. Really wondered how you would have captured the essence of a swedish person.

[Roland]

I will be honest: I fully expected to see 3d models of Swedish people when I clicked on this topic. Really wondered how you would have captured the essence of a swedish person.

Hahaha.. sorry for that

 

Here is a fully normal Swede ... (me?)

 

[Josh]

We do have some characters on this board. Some are Swedish.

[shadmar]

I know several swedish jokes

[Roland]

As this now has gone wild I can learn you two Swedish words that are really really easy

 

Island = ö

Small river = å

[sjg]

I had a similar thing where I wanted to display Cyrillic characters, and in the end I rolled my own bitmap font and used the DrawImage function to get them to the screen. Granted, it wasn't cheap (in that there was a bit of an FPS hit), but it did what it said on the tin.