Better international symbol support for in-game fonts (especially chat)
What Feature would you like to see included within TaleSpire?
What does it look like, how does it work, how is it used. Paint us a figurative picture.
Hi! I would like more languages to be supported other than English. For me and my players.. specifically Cyrillic, but I might not be the only one who struggles with this. One of our players is Mute and can only communicate through chat. Discord works.. but it would be ideal that she can write the messages in game to get our attention..
What situations would this Feature be useful?
Descriptions, examples, interactions with existing features - whatever you can think of to get your idea across!
Any situation in which languages other than English are used in game chat.
I assume the game chat already transfers data of the charaters other than english, but they are not displayed because the font may not support it? This is just a guess.
Perhaps a check for non english characters can trigger to display chat UI with a free open source font? Any of the google fonts are free for commercial use.
(https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#can_i_use_any_font_in_a_commercial_product)
Maybe a regex check on the string to see if the matched length is the same as the message could do it?
“[A-Za-z0-9 ]”
One other way is checking unicode value, to see if its out of range of english (>127)?
Or you know just for game chat :D
Use a free open source font that supports unicode :D
Additional Thoughts/Details
This feature would really help my friend!
Other than that game is pretty cool! Thanks for all the work you put in!
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