Request/suggestion

[InCreator]

Another problem.
Thing is, I'm Estonian and I cannot make games in my mother language, because we have very common vocals "ä", "ö", "ü" and "õ". So I can't use the,, simply because AGS takes only these latin letters which are in english language, when importing a font.

I'm not the only one. Finnish use alot of "ä", Germans and Swedish too, plus that "ü" and most of Norwegian places include letter of "ö"... I'm not a language specialist, but there's lots of europeans with those chars in their languages.

At the time when AGS was DOS only, I used numbers as those letters, like instead of word "ämblik" (spider) I used "2mblik" and instead of "ü" I used "y" (beacuse "y" is spelled in Finnish same way as our "ü").

Well, this doesn't look good, and I hope there's something that could be done. Another, and same painful way was to use SCI-Studio and replace some numbers with those special letters, but this cut off my ability to have any numbers in game, because 4 letters, upper and lowercase, take away 8 other characters, at my case - numbers.

I *understand* that there's lots of languages with different letters and AGS just can't support them all. So here's my idea - what about increasing maximum number of characters in a font and maybe having a possibility to Import custom characters into a font,
let's say, 10 characters per font that could be customized?

Uh - I think it's a bit too difficult to implement...
But at least - It's said now.

[Gilbert]

I'm not sure, but did you tried importing a TTF font and really tried typing these letters in? Though they're not displayed in teh editor's font screen, it may work.


I can confirm that double-byte encodings (CJK fonts) won't work though...  

[InCreator]

I'm not sure, but did you tried importing a TTF font and really tried typing these letters in?

Strange... it worked.
But Outline problem still exists (see my other thread).

[Gilbert]

Heh it's not strange, as it should work, as stated by CJ, just that he won't bother updating the editor to display everything.