Editor - change font for better CJK character support about wickedengine HOT 8 CLOSED

Thanks for the screenshots. I like the look of unifont at first glance. I will test it for myself a bit too.

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Maybe I should complete the translation so that you can test it with new font properly. What do you think?
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Fonts are compiled into the exe from header files, to avoid loading from separate files. This way user only needs the exe and not other files to run the editor. We can add support for chinese font, can you post that font file here, so I can test it and create embedded header file from it?

Also post an example chinese text that doesn't work correctly now but works with your new font.

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Maybe I should complete the translation so that you can test it with new font properly. What do you think? @turanszkij

You don't have to create full chinese localization, we can fix the chinese text support separately. But if you create localization, we can include it with the engine.

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That font is some random font on my work machine which is very likely has copyright issue, and I have no access for that computer now because It's weekend :)
I think something like ubuntu mono should be fine, I'll find a link and post it here.
Before that I'll re-create a draft localization .xml file for testing and upload it here ASAP

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xml for testing font: simplified_chinese.zip, only easy parts translated.

So I tried noto-sans and unifont and I got 12 screenshots.(ZOOM IN the page to see text in pics)

Direct link: NotoSansMonoCJKsc-Regular.ttf and unifont-15.0.01.ttf

I think unifont is the best considering the balance of the size and supported glyphs.
(kinda ugly like retro pixel font but somehow matches editor theme and I really like it)

lang.\font	yumin	unifont	noto-sans-sc
English
Magyar
Japanese
Chinese

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I didn't really like these fonts, but I will think of a solution to have ability to add custom fonts for a language by user without rebuilding the engine.

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This is solved in this commit: 3fbb10b

• Removed Yumin font
• Added Noto Sans CJK font to Editor/fonts
• Editor/fonts folder can contain other user fonts if new characters need to be supported, they will be loaded automatically at startup
• Default font in the Editor can be overridden in config.ini by specifying font = filename.ttf (see example in Editor/config.ini

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