Re: [Wesnoth-dev] New project member

[Yann Dirson]

Hi, and welcome aboard !

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:42:59AM +0900, Nobuhito Okada wrote:
> I heard many Japanese people still have troubles displaying Japanese
> characters because in many cases, they just forgot to copy the font
> into the "fonts" folder of Wesnoth installation directory. (e.g.
> http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=77848 )
> Normally, they expect to use the new fonts just after they install
> them onto system by prepared way for X11 or MS-Windows.
> I have no idea how this can be realized on Wesnoth.  But if somebody
> are interested to implement it, I'd love to help them.

Yes, that is a problem.  Maybe we could add some support for the
native font-lookup mechanisms for our supported platforms.  Maybe
there is already some generic layer written somewhere (eg. an SDL_font
addon ?)

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