[Bf-gamedev] Showing Malayalam language in BGE script window

[Dalai Felinto]

Jestin,
There are  parts of your problem:

1) Text Editor

The problem you show in the screenshot has nothing to do with the BGE,
since the Text Editor is pretty much an integral part of Blender.
Blender 2.72 allows you to pick a custom font to use as International
Font. Get a font that supports the characters you need and use that
instead.

2) BGE

The BGUI is a third party script, so here is not the best place to
pinpoint what is the issue in that case. That said, the same font you
use for (1) should work here. Just find a way to use a custom font
with BGUI (I'm sure it supports, I just don't know off the top of my
head how to set that up).

3) Last but not least

You can also use the font you found for (1) and use that with a Text
object. Text objects allows for true type fonts inside the BGE.
(though BGUI is a more convenient way of using it for interface). It
will help you  to debug if the issue is BGUI or your font.

Cheers,
Dalai
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2014-10-16 4:14 GMT-03:00 Jestin Joy <jestinjoy at gmail.com>:
> Little Google search gave me this
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Preferences/System#International_Fonts
> Could see that my language Malayalam is not listed there. Also found this
> https://developer.blender.org/T40179.
>
> Could someone provide me a quick solution.
>
> Screenshot of my problem is given in this link:
> http://i.stack.imgur.com/92jG3.png
>
> Jestin Joy
> Ph:9446764386
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Piotr Arłukowicz <piotao at inf.ug.edu.pl>
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jestin,
>>
>> I'm not an expert on quirks of fonts in BGE, but maybe, in your case,
>> there is a font-related problem. Some language encodings aren't present in
>> fonts, especially they are not ported in native Blender Bfont. Did you try
>> to use another fonts with glyphs for your language? Changing just a font
>> could help a lot. Another way is to make displaying text from a texture,
>> using uv splits and then a game is creating sprites which are displayed.
>> Then you can even draw your own fonts, but this method is a bit more
>> complicated, however, it was used since years, so you'll be able to find
>> good tutorials about it. Just look for "BGE custom fonts" or similar.
>>
>> regards
>> Pio
>>
>>
>> Piotr Arłukowicz, PhD, BFCT
>> University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics,
>> Dept. of AI,
>> Wit Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, room 121, tel.: +48585232151,
>> https://inf.ug.edu.pl/~piotao
>> Polish Blender Course: http://polskikursblendera.pl/ [PL]
>>
>> 2014-10-16 7:51 GMT+02:00 Jestin Joy <jestinjoy at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am developing an application using BGE. But I am facing a problem where
>>> I couldn't enter Malayalam language into text editor or couldn't enter
>>> Malayalam to text input field made using the bgui. It shows up as small
>>> square boxes.
>>>
>>> I could see that some other languages like russian, korean works well. It
>>> would be helpful if you could give information about enabling Malayalam in
>>> BGE  too.
>>>
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