[Bf-committers] International Input

[Diego B]

Hello:

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Ignacio Fernandez Moreno
> <hellmoon666 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What would be needed to add International Input Support to blender? This
> > will apply mainly to the text editor and the Text object since it may be
> > better to avoid special characters in text inputs (so text sould be
> > converted when pasting text there).
>
> Hi, this is a very tricky situation for blender, pretty much all
> internal strings (object names, text datablocks) are stored in ASCII
> char and it would be an enormous undertaking to change that.
>
> I'm not familiar with the key codes issues much (eg. exclamation mark
> on french keyboards) but maybe if there is a simple way to convert key
> codes to ascii in only certain situations (eg. text editor, text field
> editing) that might work. Any further than that though, for example
> adding IME support to Blender, would be very difficult.
>
> I think in the meantime, a good, doable short term target would be to
> get international text display working, rather than input. This would
> have several benefits including restoring interface (i.e. operator
> name/property) translations back to at least a blender 2.4 level, and
> also displaying international characters in the file browser -
> searching for a file with a Japanese filename is impossible, for
> example. As far as I understand, the text drawing code already
> supports UTF/wchar input so it's a much more practical goal to aim for
> first.
>

Yes, the drawing code take a utf8 string, so already can handle the "output"
part.

For the translation, what is missing (maybe, I have to check), is convert
the string to utf8 before draw the text, but I thing that the gettext
already do that, not sure again, have to check.

The problem in the file browser (I think) is the character encode, so the
solution maybe is convert the file name to utf8 before draw, this can be
done in the file browser code and when I say convert it's only for draw, not
to use as an argument for fopen or gzopen (or maybe yes, if both function
can handle it).



> If anyone is interested in working on this, I'm happy to help out,
> please get in touch with me.
>
> cheers,
>
> Matt
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