Unicode in 0.4.0 Savefiles? (Was: Unicode Font...)

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » 08 Feb 2005 07:55

Not too much progress on News font, though Cyrillic is now done. Hebrew is the last remaining major character set to be finished.

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » 10 Feb 2005 01:36

progress as slowed due to school work, but the large font is now complete.

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » 18 Feb 2005 18:39

The small font was also completed. Now that there is less school work again, progress on the patch should progress a little faster from here on out.

elomage · Post by **elomage** » 02 Mar 2005 04:01

If GRF files are such a problem and limitation, why don't we introduce some simple cheesy bitmap files for character representation?
There could be one file that is mapping character codes with attributes (size) to pointers in a binary file, and the binary file would be a streem of bits, which does not even need to nbe compressed, if you want a fast implementation.

If you would like me to write a spec for this and some code for interface
and import/export to bitmap editors, let me know.

Unless we are in love with grf files. Which, by the way, could still hold the object graphics.

--Leo

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » 02 Mar 2005 04:31

The plan is to use BDF files, a special bitmap font format that can be easily gzipped (due to its use of ASCII) for easy distribution of fonts.

raingrove · Post by **raingrove** » 20 Apr 2005 10:52

I could do the Korean translation. how's the progress on the Unicode support?

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » 20 Apr 2005 16:32

Haven't done anything lately

School and a accidentally deleted hard drive have been keeping me very busy. I'm quite aware of it still, and plan to return to it when I have time. The source code that I was working on was not deleted.

Also, some minor progress has been made on one minor Unicode related front: I submitted a patch to help prevent Unicode related crashes with save files on Mac OS X, which resulted in the introduction of OpenTTD-encoding to/from internal-Unicode-representation and UTF-8 to/from internal-Unicode-representation functions being added.

raingrove · Post by **raingrove** » 21 Apr 2005 05:08

Can I have the source code you used to achieve this? I would like to see if there's anything I could do.

raingrove · Post by **raingrove** » 21 Apr 2005 06:40

actually, the work you have done so far as shown in the screen shot above is more than enough for me to carry out a translation for korean as well as other far eastern languages such as Chinese and Japanese.

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » 21 Apr 2005 17:15

I will gladly send you the BDF files that will (hopefully) be distributed with OpenTTD, so you know what characters are available.

raingrove · Post by **raingrove** » 24 Apr 2005 07:35

can i have the diff patch if you dont mind?

Pipian · Post by **Pipian** » 24 Apr 2005 18:53

Diff wouldn't be helpful, as the patch is incomplete.

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