Question about Unicode characters?

[andykk]

Does anyone know how to display Unicode characters in the Game Editor?
Characters like Ư, Ô, Ê, Ứ, Ố, Ế, Ạ, Ặ......

Thanks

[skydereign]

The current gE version doesn't have unicode support. But you can create custom bmp fonts that can display them.

[andykk]

thanks sky, but, can you give me an example?

[skydereign]

Here is an edited version of a font pyrometal made. The 0-7 characters have been replaced with the unicode characters you specified. It isn't a very nice implementation, but for now it is what works. To display the font, add it with the space characters as the initial character as the space character, and it should auto set to 91 characters.

[andykk]

I mean, I do not know how to read a character string to get the bitmap image and display it

Sorry for my bad english!!

[skydereign]

So you don't know how to display text? You have to create a text actor (normal actor with a font file), give it a ttf or image file, and give it some default text. If you don't know how to do that, in the actor control panel, near the top right, there should be a button that says Text. Click that, and then New Font (from there it is pretty clear). Next you need to change the actor's text variable.
text_actor -> Create Actor -> Script Editor

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sprintf(text, "This is a test 01234567");

Following those steps the text actor should display the line of text in the quotes, except the 0-7 should be unicode characters.

[andykk]

oh no no, i mean how to use that bitmap file

[skydereign]

Which is kind of what I told you.

You have to create a text actor (normal actor with a font file), give it a ttf or image file, and give it some default text. If you don't know how to do that, in the actor control panel, near the top right, there should be a button that says Text. Click that, and then New Font (from there it is pretty clear)

I'll be more clear. Create an actor that you want to be a text actor (has to be normal actor type).
In the actor control panel, click [Text].
Click [New Font]
Click [From image file]
Click File and find the image you want.
In the initial font char section, press space (since the first character in the font file I uploaded is space).
Make sure Number of font chars section says 91 (since there are 91 characters in the font file).
Click [Ok]
Type in some default text into the large text section.
Click [Ok]
Now your actor should be displaying the default text.

[andykk]

thanks now i have known how to use bitmap file but, it is quite inconvenient
i should find another better way

[skydereign]

Well there really isn't a more convenient way. I would have told you it if there were. The problem is gE can't take input unicode characters. It is theoretically possible to use chars to input ascii values that wouldn't normally be possible from normal character input, and then parse a given string to do replacements to these values, but that is far more inconvenient, and can be rather difficult. That being said there is still the char limit since unicode isn't supported. Long story short, unicode isn't supported. If you must use those characters, the custom font files are the way to go.