How to use cyrillic

ras_maxim · Tue 15/06/2004 13:04:04

Greetings, I am new to AGS
I have a question: how can I use cyrillic symbols in AGS? I can redraw similar letters using font editor... and when I am importing true type fonts, cirillyc symbols are displayed like there is wrong codepage for font:

. Can I solve this???

TerranRich · Tue 15/06/2004 15:21:40

Yes you can. Use a font that uses cyrillic symbols.

ras_maxim · Tue 15/06/2004 16:35:19

OK, I've imported ArialCyr TTF but russian letters in the game are displayed as strange symbols! Why???

TerranRich · Tue 15/06/2004 16:38:56

AGS can only support the first 128 bits of a font: e.g., 0-9, A-Z. So fnd a font that is totally Cyrillic, meaning A-Z are cyrillic characters themselves. Or is that what ArialCyr is?

Scorpiorus · Tue 15/06/2004 16:45:56

Yeah, I have faced that too. The only workaround I found is to replace each symbol with an appropriate cyrillic letter. Annoyingly boring but that works at least. I used FontCreator.

ras_maxim · Tue 15/06/2004 16:56:27

oh what a disrimination

I suggest I'll leave small letters english and replace capital ones with small russian symbols.
Thanks for your reply.

Scorpiorus · Tue 15/06/2004 21:04:39

You can do either that or replace those "strange symbols" with cyrillic ones. Will take some more time though, since they are rather similar.

ras_maxim · Wed 16/06/2004 19:54:12

Is there a freeware true type font editor?

TerranRich · Wed 16/06/2004 20:00:06

Yes, I'm sure there is. Use a search engine to find one.