On Jan 17, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi Ken, PyGame provides a font module which can render text onto a > surface. ... > > The _() around the text indicates that the string is to be > localized, it will be extracted and placed in a database by the > gettext utility.
The PyGame font system uses SDL_ttf, which can't handle much beyond simple Latin-1 characters. Lincoln wrote a wrapper for pango (olpcgames.pangofont) which uses more or less the same API as pygame's font system, but will handle almost any text you throw at it. --Noah _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel