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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: MatthTheGeek on May 16, 2010, 08:59:22 am

Title: Request : Special characters, accents for translations
Post by: MatthTheGeek on May 16, 2010, 08:59:22 am
potterman28wxcv and me are working on a French translation (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=69352.0) of FSPort, however the Freespace font doesn't support some special characters, especially vowels with accents like é, è, à, û etc. that are required in many French words. It would be great to have that fixed if possible.
Title: Re: Request : Special characters, accents for translations
Post by: sigtau on May 16, 2010, 10:14:58 am
Support for OpenType or TrueType fonts would work wonderfully for this.
Title: Re: Request : Special characters, accents for translations
Post by: The E on May 16, 2010, 10:21:54 am
Indeed. It would be nice if we could get rid of the dependence on those custom font files.
Title: Re: Request : Special characters, accents for translations
Post by: Iss Mneur on May 16, 2010, 10:49:37 am
Indeed. It would be nice if we could get rid of the dependence on those custom font files.
Speaking of the custom font files, have we been able to get FontTool to work?  Does the custom font file format even support anything beyond the standard characters that it uses now?
Title: Re: Request : Special characters, accents for translations
Post by: Rodo on May 16, 2010, 01:21:14 pm
potterman28wxcv and me are working on a French translation (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=69352.0) of FSPort, however the Freespace font doesn't support some special characters, especially vowels with accents like é, è, à, û etc. that are required in many French words. It would be great to have that fixed if possible.
and the "ñ", very important to spanish translations as well.
Title: Re: Request : Special characters, accents for translations
Post by: sigtau on May 16, 2010, 02:09:58 pm
Whichever one has the least license restrictions is more likely to get coded in.
Title: Re: Request : Special characters, accents for translations
Post by: The E on May 16, 2010, 02:22:21 pm
Errrm. This has nothing at all to do with license issues. It all depends on what is easiest to code, more than anything.
Title: Re: Request : Special characters, accents for translations
Post by: Goober5000 on May 16, 2010, 06:21:53 pm
The French release of FS1 should have come with a font file that contains French characters.