Dear Bart,
Thank you for your response. I realized that the problem is actually in the
font rendering in pygame cause of the way our language uses its symbols. I
decided to convert all unicode into standard font mapping and it has worked
very well.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Bartosz Debski <bart...@debski.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi Diliup,
>
> I'm using unicode without problem in Polish, German and French. Usually
> it's the font you are using is the problem. I would check those font you
> selected have correct mappings for characters you want to use.
>
> Try to load this font into your system and check in eg. OpenOffice or Gimp
> does programs render those characters. If they don't then 100% your font
> has not those characters mapped.
>
> Cheers
> Bart
>
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:36 PM, diliup gabadamudalige <dili...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>> import pygame, sys
>>
>>
>> pygame.font.init()
>>
>> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((640,480))
>>
>> unistring = u"හලෝ ශානික "
>>
>> fnt = pygame.font.Font("kaputaunicode.ttf",40)
>>
>> while True:
>> screen.blit(fnt.render(unistring,True,(255,255,255)),(0,0))
>>
>> pygame.display.flip()
>> for key in pygame.event.get():
>> if key.type == pygame.QUIT:
>> pygame.quit()
>> sys.exit()
>>
>> this code works but it prints the the second character after the fourth.
>> Any ideas why it's doing that?
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:49 PM, diliup gabadamudalige <
>> dili...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi!
>>>
>>> ANybody has used unicode with pygame? I need help displaying my native
>>> text using unicode.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Diliup Gabadamudalige
>>>
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