Font tool bug?

[makzone]

Hi, i am new to Irrlicht
I just created a font file with the FontTool included in irrlicht
however, i found that some chars didnt include in the new font
btw all english and symbols are included,
but some other language's chars didnt include ( e.g. Chinese )
its quite a big problem because i decided my game is going Chinese.

p.s. only a part of chars are included, but not all. That means i can use some Chinese words but not all.

Thank you and apologize for my poor English.

[Ravi08]

Hi, sorry to hear your having trouble with the font tool, I have only used it for english font so I don't know a fix maybe someone else might but I can recommend using this font tool, its just an advanced version which might work with the Chinese language.

http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/v ... ol#p219503

Hope this helps.

[makzone]

Thank you for reply,

i'd try out the advanced version font toll, however, the problem still occured.

it seems that it converted a fixed range of chars in a font ( if every char has its index, then its looks like that the font tools convert 0 ~ XXXX(1000 for example) )
because i found that no matter which font i converted, the converted chinese words are the same.

i had tried to convert a offical chinese font, but it was the same result.

[Brainsaw]

I don't think that those "special" (i.e. "non english") characters are supported in the built-in font system, but you could search the forum for truetype fonts (there are some projects including those) which might support what you're looking for.

[hybrid]

Yes, special characters in ordinary fonts can be displayed using a customized font file. However, extended char sets such as chinese require unicode support. This is still not fully integrated into IRrlicht, so you need some extensions from the forum. TrueType fonts will also be helpful, as chinese also requires addition font capabilities.