BMFont Class support special characters?

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• atilim Maintainer

  February 2013

  BMFont (https://github.com/gideros/bmfont) doesn't support unicode characters.
  
  But latest version of Gideros supports BMFont format natively. Just load your bitmap font with Font.new("font.fnt", "font.png") and create your TextField.
  
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• bravcm Member

  February 2013

  Thanks, this works, but all chars are black! My font png file contains fancy font design ....
  any idea why?

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• atilim Maintainer

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  Can you attach your font file? (.fnt and .png files)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• bravcm Member

  February 2013

  No problem ...

  zip

  zip

  font_test.zip

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  font_test.zip 87.9K

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• bravcm Member

  February 2013

  my code:
  ...
  local font = Font.new("font/DroidSerif-BoldItalic.txt", "font/DroidSerif-BoldItalic.png")
  local scoreLabel = TextField.new(font,"Hello Giderans xy šššššššššššŠčČćĆžŽđĐ!")
  scoreLabel:setPosition(10, 30)
  stage:addChild(scoreLabel)
  ...

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• atilim Maintainer

  February 2013 Accepted Answer

  If you open DroidSerif-BoldItalic.txt and delete "alphaChnl=0 redChnl=4 greenChnl=4 blueChnl=4" then it'll be displayed correctly.
  
  btw, which tool did you use? because "alphaChnl=0 redChnl=4 greenChnl=4 blueChnl=4" means "white text with alpha" but apparently your text is green with some outline

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• bravcm Member

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  Super, works now! My procedure: first I have used Gideros Font Creator, import font and at the end add some unicode characters. After that I exported font to png file and open it in Photoshop, redesign it and overwrite generated png file. I've never modify font's txt file! I can confirm: attributes "alphaChnl=0 redChnl=4 greenChnl=4 blueChnl=4" was added to txt file by Gideros Font Creator.

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• atilim Maintainer

  February 2013 Accepted Answer

  whoa that's great. Gideros Font Creator adds "alphaChnl=0 redChnl=4 greenChnl=4 blueChnl=4" because it exports white text with alpha.
  
  Also there is another option without removing "alphaChnl=0 redChnl=4 greenChnl=4 blueChnl=4". If you only add scoreLabel:setTextColor(0xffffff), it'll be again displayed correctly.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• bravcm Member

  February 2013

  Good to know. Thank you atilim!

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