CJK support?

[Jedi]

Osmos' locale system is simple and cool, but I can't make it work with Traditional Chinese characters. Is there any way to do so? Or the current version only support western languages?

[Meal Worms]

Hi Jedi,

Thanks for your post. Osmos' localization system should work fine with Chinese characters. The only 'trick' is that the font Osmos shipped with contains only Western characters. That said, you can replace the FortuneCity.ttf with a font that has Chinese characters, then create a new Osmos-cht.loc file (making sure it contains only characters that exist in the new font).

Good luck,
Dave

[Jedi]

That's exactly what I tried. I created Osmos-zh.loc (Osmos-cht.loc won't load) and replaced FortuneCity.ttf with WindowsXP's default Traditional Chinese fonts, but Chinese characters just don't show up.

I also tried ANSI(in this case, BIG5) and UTF-8 encoding for Osmos-zh.loc, and they don't work.

I can give you those files to test if necessary.

Best,
/Jedi/

[Jedi]

I updated my Osmos to build 1.5.7 1089, but still, it can't support Chinese locale display.

I've tried many different Chinese fonts, some free, some commercial, some shiped with Windows, some ttf, some ttc, none works. Big5(ansi) and utf-8 encoding of Osmos-zh.loc are both tested and none works.

Maybe Osmos doesn't handle double-byte characters set well? Oh, please, check if you can make Osmos support Chinese locale!

Best,
/Jedi/

[Meal Worms]

Hi Jedi,

We'd love to get this working! If you're interested in helping, can you please send me an email (daveburke at hemispheregames dot com) with details about what you've tried, as well as a couple of example fonts and your translated Osmos loc file?

Thanks Jedi!
Dave

[Jedi]

Hi Dave,

I've mailed you yesterday. Please reply me so that I can know the mail arrived as it should be :-p

Best,
/Jedi/

Hi Jedi,

We'd love to get this working! If you're interested in helping, can you please send me an email (daveburke at hemispheregames dot com) with details about what you've tried, as well as a couple of example fonts and your translated Osmos loc file?

Thanks Jedi!
Dave

[Meal Worms]

Hi Jedi,

I did receive your email, thankyou! I'll be getting to this task as soon as I can, and will let you know when Asian characters are fully supported.

Thanks for your help!
Dave

[Jedi]

Just write it down as a note:

Still no luck in 1.5.8 1100. Keep looking forward to its future support....