Smilies Patch

[Platyna]

I think adding diactrics to font.bmp for most common languages would be sufficient. ;-)

 

Regards.

[Leeloo]

What I did:

 

I draw the danish + german chars in font.bmp in the same style as the other chars. Then I cropped it so I only had the new chars, and sent the resulting file to Entropy along with the codes for the chars in latin1, official names of the chars and such.

 

Entropy: is it possible to add Latin2 chars along with the latin1 ones? I assume it won't be a problem as long as we have less than 256 chars in total, but what do we do when we cross that limit?

[Platyna]

Hmz, no idea. I see that some diactrics are already added there. If someone can explain me how does it

works it would be nice. I think for example Romanian Windoze and Linux are using different encoding

as well, same Polish, German etc.

 

Regards.

[Entropy]

We are using a hack to add those characters, and that hack works only using a certain char set (forgot which one). Other char sets have different characters mapped on the same ascii values, so it won't work.

[Leeloo]

Where are ascii values used? AFAIK, you invented your own char set for the game, so once the keypress is converted to that char set, I don't see the problem.

 

Knowing which key was pressed might be a problem, but SDL does support 16-bit unicode, which can be converted client-side to the game charset. I never tried it though, so I don't know how good it works.

[Entropy]

The problem is not only with the key presses, it's also with the pasted text.

[Leeloo]

The problem is not only with the key presses, it's also with the pasted text.

That could be fixed later... 98% of the text is typed, pasting is used mostly for URL's (which don't contain "funny" letters anyway), and spamming.