How draw chinese word?

[netwan]

I write a test love project. test output Chinese word, How can i do to got the correct .
THANKS!

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function load()

font = love.graphics.newFont("simsun.ttc", 14) -- the number denotes the font size
love.graphics.setFont(font)

end

function update(dt)
end


function draw()

love.graphics.draw("中文\nhello world", 100, 100)

end

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[rude]

Can't do that. Have to use ImageFont. One day Unicode will be supported, but doing it properly is pretty complex. For now, there's only ascii truetype fonts and ImageFont.

[Tenoch]

Does "one day" mean 0.6? Because now that we have unicode input (well, at least locale translated input), it's be rather useless if we couldn't draw inputed text on screen...

EDIT: I suppose we don't use SDL_ttf then, since unicode works fine with it.

[bartbes]

You could've looked that up yourself.. We use libfreetype.

[rude]

Most certainly not 0.6.0. This does not make translated chars useless. It respects keyboard layout and modifier keys. Many non-US chars are in ascii.
Can't use SDL_ttf. Way too simple. Does not use GPU in correct way. There is a tracker issue on the subject with an interesting link.


(Reason for odd sentences: mobile phone)

[bartbes]

I just checked the source and a manual I found, it seems the glyphs are loaded by using glCallLists. (please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know OpenGL) With this information, and the fact that freetype supports unicode, I would conclude that it might be as easy as changing GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE into GL_UNSIGNED_SHORT. (1 byte -> 2 bytes)
I might be way off, but it can't be that hard, because freetype is supposed to support unicode.

(reason for odd sentences: it's me )

EDIT: or GL_2_BYTES, but it seems that reads the bytes in reverse order (or I'm just wrong, again)

[Tenoch]

Many non-US chars are in ascii.

Mmm, I'm sorry but that is not entirely correct. ASCII is on 7 bits only, and has 128 characters only: some nonprintable stuff and
123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

I suppose you meant any of the 8 bits encodings that uses ASCII as the 128 lowest characters. From the little test I ran, it appears that draw() (or print() in 0.6) interprets strings as ISO 8859-1

Its printable higher chars are:
¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬­®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ

(which indeed covers many european languages)

Encodings jungle FTW

[rude]

bartbes: can't use glCallLists in the future. Not supported by OGL ES. Also: not nearly enough GPU memory to create textures for the entire Unicode range.

Tenoch: I meant within 8bits, yes. I know nothing about encodings.

(still mobile)