Unicode support

[tc-]

Hi everyone!

First I would like to say I love Löve! I'm currently developing a little app(https://github.com/tc-/NihonDrill) to practice Hiragana and Katakana(Japanese "alphabets") using Löve. It contains 208 images, one for each sign, this is not really a pretty solution that I'm proud of. Image fonts should be possible but a hassle since I would have to map all signs to ASCII characters.

I really would love to see the possibility to draw utf8 encoded text. Are there any plans on adding this support?

Thanks for all your hard work!

/ TC

[bmelts]

There are indeed plans.

Adding Unicode support is not a trivial endeavor. The current roadmap has it planned for 0.8.0, as part of a greater font revamp. We just released 0.7.0 last month, though, so it probably won't be in for a while.

[tc-]

Ok, thanks for the reply, I'll be watching this issue