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Unicode character conversion
« on: January 12, 2011, 07:54:50 am »
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So I've been writing a text engine in GM that I want to support multiple languages, specifically japanese characters. Unfortunately GM doesn't support unicode at all so pasting them into the code that converts the text into subimage numbers for the font sprite doesn't work. I've thought of a way around this by using something that converts a string of japanese characters to the standard set used by GM, so for example "こんにちは" would become "j$tow" or whatever roman character/symbol represents the character. However due to the non unicodiness of GM it's kinda impossible for me to make a program that uses a table to convert one to the other :P
I guess it could probably be done with an excel so I'm gonna give it a go in a minute, but if I have no luck would someone be able to write a little program that does it?
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Re: Unicode character conversion
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2011, 09:22:33 am »
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Nevermind, figured out how to write an excel sheet to do it :P
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2011, 06:22:19 pm »
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Just being curious. How did you solve it?
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2011, 11:21:32 pm »
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Here's the spreadsheet, http://frostfireaudio.com/junk/text%20converter.xlsx . Pretty messy but it works. Annoyingly substitute() doesn't let you select ranges of cells so I had to do one call for each character.
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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2011, 09:54:10 pm »
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Does this also deal with katakana and smaller characters (words like ひゃく and にっぽん for example)?

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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2011, 01:16:22 am »
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Yeah, I've added the small characters to the sheet but not katakana yet. I will do that though, the way it's set up you can use any language/character set that contains 253 characters or less, which is why I can use this method for japanese characters as long as I don't start using kanji. Which isn't necessary anyway since you can write any of them with hiragana.
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