Different language

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Eren (Posted 2015) [#1]

I'm trying to import some russian text to b3d as a string(s), but whenever I paste it always gives me the text as '???'. How can I enable blitz3d to deal with unicode?

Flanker512 (Posted 2015) [#2]

FastText library supports unicode, but it's not free : http://www.fastlibs.com/libraries.php

Eren (Posted 2015) [#3]

Is there any other way?

Brucey (Posted 2015) [#4]

Blitz3D is very old. When it first came out, there were no other known languages, only English. Hence, there is no built-in support for unicode.

Rick Nasher (Posted 2015) [#5]

Hardwired/Hybrid will/is supporting Unicode, however still very much in development stage. Might work for you already, depending what you're after and demands are.

Flanker512 (Posted 2015) [#6]

An alternative could be a bitmap font like that : But you'll have to write your own routine to draw the corresponding letters, and use another IDE to display cyrillic, IDEal for example.