Displaying Non-English Letters

[+Voller]

Hello.

 

I am building a cartridge in Danish. In the Danish language we have 3 extra vowels that are very commonly used. Maybe you can see them, they are Æ/æ, Ø/ø and Å/å. When I try to use these characters for text messages, only a blank (space) is displayed. Is there setting I have missed or alternatively a workaround concerning this problem?

[Ranger Fox]

While there may not be a fix for this as of yet, I have a suggestion for a workaround. Why not create an image with the text you need? Instead of displaying text to the player, you display the image, which has the text. It's a crude and more time consuming undertaking, but it will at least work.

[+Voller]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Imagine that all Web-pages in other languages than English had to be made as image-files

For now, in my Cartridge version 0.1 I will just spell the vowels as ae, oe and aa. But it is not ideal, how would you feel if you had to spell out a "W" as "VV" ? It just doesn't look and read well. I hope that soon there will be an update to VVherigo that utilizes the localization settings on the unit.

[+marekl]

There is no need to bind it with localization settings of the unit in my opinion. Unicode is good way how to present these characters on display.

 

I have the same problem with Czech local characters in Wherigo: ůěščřžýáíéďťň...

Edited March 11, 2008 by marekl

[+cghove]

Hello.

 

I am building a cartridge in Danish. In the Danish language we have 3 extra vowels that are very commonly used. Maybe you can see them, they are Æ/æ, Ø/ø and Å/å. When I try to use these characters for text messages, only a blank (space) is displayed. Is there setting I have missed or alternatively a workaround concerning this problem?

 

old post i Know but as a Norwegian i usualy in urwigo go to Lua user functions and paste in the folowing code:

function firstLetter(str)
 return str:match("[%z\1-\127\194-\244][\128-\191]*")
end

and the Run/build as utf 8 to be able to use Æ,Ø,Å....