celeron55 wrote:This is a limitation of Irrlicht's font and input system. Somebody has made a TTF font rendering system but it's not (yet?) included in the native Irrlicht distribution (only patches), so it's too much of a hassle to use, apparently there are some cross-platform issues too:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=37296
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=220810#220810
robotest wrote:as of 0.4.7 TrueType font is allowed and used
Evergreen wrote:robotest wrote:as of 0.4.7 TrueType font is allowed and used
This topic is two years old. Why do people not look at the dates anymore?
neko259 wrote:Because the problem is still not fixed. I host a minetest server for over 3 years and I still cannot type my native language. In fact, it is the only software I know that still does not use utf8 :(
Krock wrote:UTF-8 contains many, many different characters. It's a theme since long time and will be (hopefully) used in the next Minetest release.
neko259 wrote:Emm, so what? Many free fonts contain them too, what's the difficulty in picking any of them?
Krock wrote:neko259 wrote:Emm, so what? Many free fonts contain them too, what's the difficulty in picking any of them?
Not the fonts are the problem.
From what I heard, the chat and almost every part in the interface would break compability to older Minetest versions.
neko259 wrote:Compatibility was broken several times already. For example, 0.4.11 is incompatible to 0.4.10. Glass textures are buggy, meshes don't work in older versions.
Krock wrote:That's not a complete incompability - older clients still can join worlds and play, just without some features.
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