SDL_TTF with asian characters

SDL Development
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I’m trying to use SDL_TTF to render asian characters. However, I’m
getting an empty (though not zero-sized) rectangle instead of the text.
This is using the test program included with SDL_TTF and a font with
chinese chraracters.

I can’t figure out what am I doing wrong, since SDL doesn’t give any
error. Is there some special trick I’m not doing? Does anyone have a
working example?

Thanks,
–Gabriel

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I’m not sure it’s the best /example/, since it’s no doubt pretty cluttered
in there, but Tux Paint supports Japanese, Chinese (Trad & Simpl), Korean.

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/

You can browse the code in CVS using the web interface at SourceForge:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/tuxpaint/tuxpaint/src/

Enjoy!On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:41:15PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:

I can’t figure out what am I doing wrong, since SDL doesn’t give any
error. Is there some special trick I’m not doing? Does anyone have a
working example?

–
-bill!
bill at newbreedsoftware.com Tonight’s Forecast: Dark. Continued darkness
http://newbreedsoftware.com/ until widely scattered light in the morning.

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I’d start with checking how the chinese characters are being represented in
your input string. Are they UTF8, unicode, or some ASCII codepage?On Thursday 21 April 2005 10:41, Gabriel wrote:

I can’t figure out what am I doing wrong, since SDL doesn’t give any
error. Is there some special trick I’m not doing? Does anyone have a
working example?