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tiefschnee
Unicode Font / Non-latin characters in OpenGL
Oct 7th, 2008, 9:25pm  
Hey folks,

I'm trying to display characters of any language that exists on this world (Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, ...). I decided to implement it with the OpenGL renderer.

So here's the problem: within JAVA2D you can display any character of for example the Arial Unicode font:
createFont( "Arial Unicode", 48 );

This works fine, but when using OpenGL the non-latin characters won't be displayed.

I tried geomerative (http://www.ricardmarxer.com/geomerative/). This renders some fonts, but performs very badly and crashes with the big Arial Unicode font. I tried drawing directly in GL and JAVA2D-off-screen-rendering (creates a background on each letter). None of them worked Sad

Has anybody some tips that could solve this problem? Anything that works and runs well Smiley

Merci!
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tiefschnee
Re: Unicode Font / Non-latin characters in OpenGL
Reply #1 - Oct 8th, 2008, 9:28pm  
Or is there a way to use the com.sun.opengl.util.j2d.TextRenderer within Processing? It seems to work in pure JOGL.

http://download.java.net/media/jogl/builds/nightly/javadoc_public/com/sun/opengl/util/j2d/TextRenderer.html
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