Hi
I have some problems to render UTF8 formated chars with FT_Load_Char.
I use the code from the tutorial (text = std::string):
for (unsigned int n = 0; n < text.length (); n++)
{
/* load glyph image into the slot (erase previous one) */
err = FT_Load_Char (face, text[n], FT_LOAD_RENDER);
if (err)
{
continue; /* ignore errors */
}
...
If i now try to render some German letters (öäü ÖÄÜ ß ....) i only get some
rectangles ( [] ).
To prevent this i currently use a dirty workaround
for (unsigned int n = 0; n < text.length (); n++)
{
// convert from UTF8 to ISO 8859-1
if ((unsigned char) text[n] > 127)
{
if ((unsigned char) text[n] == 0xC2)
{
n++;
}
if ((unsigned char) text[n] == 0xC3)
{
n++;
text[n] += 0x40;
}
}
/* load glyph image into the slot (erase previous one) */
err = FT_Load_Char (face, (unsigned char) text[n], FT_LOAD_RENDER);
if (err)
{
continue; /* ignore errors */
}
Is it possible to render UTF8 encoded chars directly?
Have anyone some code snips or a link or only the right google search string
^^ for me (i really don't find anything helpfully out there)?
Loki
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