Re: [hatari-users] Accents in UI

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On torstai 11 lokakuu 2012, Paul Wratt wrote:
> wouldn't it be easier to use TTF fonts (with SDL_ttf)

That would add dep to SDL_ttf & freetype.

And on Linux you would need fontconfig to map characters
to correct glyphs.  No idea what one would need on OSX.

 
> If its the Atari like font issue, then there are a couple
> of TTF one out there

For it to be useful on Windows, it would need to have encoding
matching the file name encoding, otherwise you need something
to do the character -> glyph mapping.

Anyway, the problem is SDL GUI specific, which makes it
also somewhat Windows specific because:
* On Linux there's the python+gtk UI which doesn't have this
  issue, Gtk already uses standard (typically TTF) fonts in
  the system etc.
* I assume that OSX UI doesn't have the problem either.

Currently there's no Windows maintainer for Hatari.


	- Eero

> Paul
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Vincent Rivière
> 
> <vincent.riviere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 11/10/2012 16:31, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> >> The standard C file functions used by Hatari?  Or is it only
> >> the standard WIN32 API file functions that get this translation?
> > 
> > IMHO, both.
> > There is never trouble about file names encoding on Windows.
> > 
> > --
> > Vincent Rivière