Hi, I just started using Freevo (based on pygame) and I have some issues with fonts. Apparently if one tries to render a string where not all chars are in the font, there is no error and we get garbage out.
There is ONE function in SDL_TTF that can tell if a character is in the font or not. This is GlyphMetrics. So I made a tentative patch (i don't have a dev env ready therefore I haven't even compiled it so I would appreciate if somebody could try it out) to add the metrics method to fonts. If a call to this method returns None, then it will mean that this character cannot be rendered, which is what I will need in Freevo to decide to switch to a different font. Please let me know if this actually compiles and if it works! Regards, Guillaume
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