Showing translated strings in the picture

[Markerz]

if it is. There are a lot of characters (in demo.cel and start.cel) that do not display with the font.

Chinese character

歡迎展若結束請家們起來熟悉站留意這把旋完靜如廣色撞擊赫瑟爾否注裏麼黯淡周住都杓斗便認出及眼正蠍紅宿碩景象貌際吧

other

the exclamation mark ( ! or ！)


Can forum display Chinese character?

and it should be my last post today.

[Vincent]

if it is. There are a lot of characters (in demo.cel and start.cel) that do not display with the font.

Chinese character

歡迎展若結束請家們起來熟悉站留意這把旋完靜如廣色撞擊赫瑟爾否注裏麼黯淡周住都杓斗便認出及眼正蠍紅宿碩景象貌際吧

other

the exclamation mark ( ! or ！)

OK, I've added these characters to the font texture files,
and now they're correctly displayed when running the script.
You can grab the revised *_zh_TW.txf files here:
http://vincent.giangiulio.perso.sfr.fr/ ... _zh_TW.zip

Actually, the codepoints.txt files which are generated when running the
translate_resources.pl script only includes the codes for characters that
are used in the standard celestia package. That's why extra-characters
used in scripts are not displayed.

So, we'd need a more complete list of code-points for the zh_TW locale,
as described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs
Can anybody point me to a text file that includes all the hexadecimal
code-points for the CJK Unified Ideographs standard package (no extension)?

[Markerz]

Sorry one more word missing

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[Vincent]

Sorry one more word missing

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Markerz,

Many thanks for your contribution.

The revised font textures package can be grabbed here:
http://vincent.giangiulio.perso.sfr.fr/ ... _zh_TW.zip

And the whole translation files package for Windows there:
http://vincent.giangiulio.perso.sfr.fr/ ... _zh_TW.zip

[Vincent]

Celestia needs a good free font with a broad Unicode coverage.

That's an interesting point, indeed. As an example, GNU Unifont provides support for more than 40000 characters:
http://www.lgm.cl/trabajos/unifont/index.en.html
http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html

I've given a try at building the corresponding txf files. Each file includes 43114 glyphs and required a 4096 x 4096 texture, though.
So, I can see at least two issues with using Unifont:
- The font/ dir would get significantly larger: from ~33 Mo up to ~51 Mo
- I'm not sure it would be relevant to load 4096x4096 texture fonts for all languages that only use a restricted set of characters.