Hi!
I wanna make a kind of japanese-learning-game. But this is hard to do without writing in japanese letters. I just tried to import fonts that include japanese letters in it, but it did not work. It was just showing ???. So my question is: Is it possible to write japanese letters (Hiragana, Katakana as well as Kanji) somehow? :o Tasukete kudasai ^_^
Unfortunately, AGS doesn't support unicode fonts. So you have to fit all the characters into the first 256 slots of a ttf font and then use some code-fu to get it all working.
Or, you can do what I did and painstakingly export an image of each piece of dialog in the game.
(http://xiigames.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/LB_ss3.png)
Note: don't do what I did.
That would mea,n I would not type what I want to write right? I guess I would go crazy XD
Well I already thought about the picture option, but I was hoping there is a better way ... doesn't seem so :(
But thanks for the answer ^_^
I've actually once made tools to display Japanese characters using translation source(and no, no Kanji included), and they're hidden in my posts in this thread (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=20792.0). The links aren't working anymore, and it would cost me a while to look for them in my computer if someone really wants them.
I started designing an AGS introduction to basic Japanese a few years ago (with a view to doing more advanced versions as I improved my own abilities), but gave up on the idea largely because of the font headache and I didn't want to resort to using romaji. It can be done to a degree (see above), but I was too lazy and too unacquainted with AGS/fonts/life to get into it.