drawing characters with accents

daaa57150 · Post by **daaa57150** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:47 pm

Hi,

I'm new to Lua in general and I wish to develop a game for the psp.
My first pb is when I try to write characters with accents on screen (I'm french, so I'd like to write éèàê and so on).
So I'm using that code:

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screen&#58;print&#40;150,150,"é"&#41;

and all it does is printing 2 little vertical lines.
I tested different things without success (using fonts, replacing with the \ddd notation etc), so I thought I would come here and ask. If this cannot be done I would know it in no time...

Thanks.

andyauff · Post by **andyauff** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:16 am

I would like to know the same thing.

cools · Post by **cools** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:22 pm

Hmm... If you load a true type font that supports the characters needed, it might let you use the other characters like "é". If that doesn't work, you could try using a bitmap font that supports characters like "é". (Bitmap font will be a little harder)

andyauff · Post by **andyauff** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:50 pm

I've settled on typing up my text in paint and blitting the image; it works better for me for more than one reason as far as my app is concerned.

daaa57150 · Post by **daaa57150** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:18 pm

Don't know if people are still interested in this, but I'm working on that problem using "Bitmap Font Builder". I'm developping a lib in Lua to recognize those characters and generate a bitmap of the text for you to blit. I'm just afraid this will be slow I don't know.