Chinese Support

[Lustres]

Hi Everyone.
I use Irrlicht on Mac.
The system is OS X 10.11
And I found that IGUIEditBox can display Chinese character but cannot accept Chinese input.
Am I use the wrong method ?

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editBox = env->addEditBox(L"", rect<s32>(260, 72, 390, 92), true, wFilter, EDITBOX_KEYWORD);
editBox->setTextAlignment(irr::gui::EGUIA_CENTER, irr::gui::EGUIA_CENTER);
 

[hendu]

The built-in font only includes ascii chars. You'd need to use one of the truetype extensions and bring your own font.

[Lustres]

The shortcuts like command+v, command+c are not work either.
I mean shortcuts doesn't work under any languages.
if i press command + v, it only get 'v'

[Lustres]

The built-in font only includes ascii chars. You'd need to use one of the truetype extensions and bring your own font.

Thanks. I checked the font and it contains Chinese font. And I changed a another font but still doesn't work ......

[CuteAlien]

With chinese input you mean the one where you type several western characters to get one chinese character? Unfortunately we do not support that.

[lvgeng]

With chinese input you mean the one where you type several western characters to get one chinese character? Unfortunately we do not support that.

Well... I think the poster means that they has their own input method, but the textbox provided by irrlicht cannot receive the output of the input method. As the others told before, No Ctrl + C or Ctrl + V. I think the reason is the textbox cannot link to the operating system.

[CuteAlien]

I'm not sure why copy-paste wouldn't work. That usually does. Unless this is on Linux/X11... there it only got repaired very recently (in svn trunk).

[Lustres]

With chinese input you mean the one where you type several western characters to get one chinese character? Unfortunately we do not support that.

Uhhhhh…… Yes we input some Latin characters and get Chinese character

[Mel]

I thought that through Unicode you could support any language :/

[CuteAlien]

@Mel: It's about entering those characters. Keyboards with all chinese characters are huge (I think some exist...) - so generally you kinda type the word which is wanted to get the corresponding single sign.

But copy-paste should always work. Unfortunately I don't have OS X so I can't test if there is any problem there.

[kormoran]

Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc. uses IME input methods: you type a bunch of latin chars (guo3, ba1, mei2... e.g. in "guo3" guo is the western phonetic, 3 is the kind of accent) and the terminal composes the corresponding ideogram. Irrlicht does NOT support IMEs yet

To support them yourself, you need to catch two GUI events, EGET_EDITBOX_ENTER to know when to start IME composition and EGET_ELEMENT_FOCUS_LOST to know when to stop... for the IME itself, both windows and linux support some different IMEs, taking advantage of them would be the best solution, if possible.

EDIT: SDL2 does support IME input, maybe a peek in their code can give you some pointers

[CuteAlien]

@kormoran: It's not so easy. Because ime uses native windows api's - which won't help you much once you are using OpenGL or DirectX.