Russian Characters with System Fonts?

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(tu) ENAY (Posted 2007) [#1]

Is it possible to use Russian characters using 'Text' in Blitz3D? Russian characters don't show up properly in Blitz IDE (they go to ???) and if you try to load them in using unicode the characters are all corrupted. Searching the forums doesn't seem to show any evidence of this being possible, although it has been discussed a few times. I have seen comments said that you can load fonts such as Times New Roman CE, but still doesn't work for me. Cycling through the ASCII just shows up with small squares. I want to display Russian characters and also change to other fonts using SetFont and change sizes etc. So is it possible or am I just wasting my time? Yes or no answer is fine :)

MadMunky (Posted 2007) [#2]

http://www.blitzmax.com/Community/posts.php?topic=68216 This lib supports russian texts too. I dunno about resizing fonts. U can always free an old font and reload a new one with a different size. But i dunno if that eats alot of your performance if that must be done within the main loop of your game.

(tu) ENAY (Posted 2007) [#3]

Cheers for that MadMunky, I'll gonna take a look :)