Extended characters not working for swf

[Justin Clift]

Reported by piponazo:

  http://www.salasaga.org/forum/index.php/topic,18.0.html

Problems with the spanish language in the text layers and in the information button text. Some characters like "ñ" and written accents (á,é,í,ó, ú).

[Justin Clift (justinclift)]

Seems to be a problem with Ming.

But, not sure if it's because Salasaga isn't passing the information to it correctly (i.e. perhaps we're sending ASCII vs Unicode), or if it's something else.

On the Ming users mailing list, someone suggested to another person to try using the browser fonts (i.e. _sans), as a test.

That sounds useful, and may help in diagnosing what's going wrong.

[Justin Clift (justinclift)]

Salasaga was calling ming using non-unicode functions. Was a simple fix to change to use unicode functions. Initial testing shows extended characters being output properly in swf now.

[Justin Clift (justinclift)]

Alpha 4 (source code tarball) has been released, and it now uses UTF8 for text in SWF, so these characters should be working fine. :)

Hopefully the Ubuntu package will be ready very soon!