Use of non-English letters

[Tomi]

Hello everybody!

Is it possible to use of non-English letters in ZGE? When I tried to use Hungarian accent letters with RenderText, I got spaces instead of these.

[Kjell]

Hi Tomi,

ZGameEditor stores project files ( .zgeproj ) using ISO-8859-1 encoding. As far as Hungarian is concerned, ISO-8859-1 is missing Ő,ő,Ű,ű. If you can live with typing Õ,õ,Û,û instead, you can simply adjust your font to still render Ő,ő,Ű,ű.



Alternatively you can use external / embedded text files using ISO-8859-2 encoding if you really dislike having to type Õ,õ,Û,û.

K

[Tomi]

Thank you for your answer, Kjell!
At me, the problem can be seen on the attached image. Should I use some kind of "UseMaterial" before the RenderText to get the wished characters, as you used in your example (Is "CEMaterial" means "Central European"?)?

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[Kjell]

Hi Tomi,

Should I use some kind of "UseMaterial" before the RenderText to get the wished characters, as you used in your example?

The built-in font only contains ASCII characters. So you need to provide your own font that has all characters you want to use. Attached is the example i used in the screenshot.

Is "CEMaterial" means "Central European"?

Correct, "CE" refers to "Central European" .. but you can name components whatever you want

K

[Tomi]

Many thanks, Kjell! I tried your example program and it works fine at me too! It's not too easy for me to understand the usage of these game components (Material, Font, etc. together), but your example is very helpful.
I'm so happy now!