[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#15201) SDL client: unsupported letters

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15201 >

2006-01-17 (火) の 17:12 -0800 に Jason Short さんは書きました:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15201 >
> 
> Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15201 >
> > 
> > The letter 'ě' is not supported by the SDL client (on an up-to-date
> > Ubuntulinux system) and current S2_1 as is (not) seen in attached
> > screen.
> > 
> > Other problematic letters I've come across includes 'ň' and 'ř' (all
> > Czech language)
> 
> This is a fonts problem.  Freeciv comes with its own fonts:
> 
> /data/fonts/VeraBd.ttf
> /data/fonts/Vera.ttf
> 
> which I guess don't have symbols for those characters.  The solution is 
> to include better fonts or to find a way to hook into system fonts (not 
> idea how this would be done with SDL).
> 
> -jason
> 

Oh I see. And the GTK and Win32 clients just plug into system fonts
instead?

Anyway, then we have a bigger problem. Non-latin localizations won't
work at all in SDL client or other clients that use the default Freeciv
font.

For example: This is what the main menu with the current Japanese
localization looks like.

-Daniel