Hello, I need to display Russian text in my game, which of course uses the Cyrillic alphabet instead of the Latin alphabet.

The font that SED uses, Courier, supports this, except it seems that SED does not. When I copy and paste Russian text into my code, it shows up like this:

str1 = "?????????????";

This is also what it appears as ingame. I think the problem is with SED. Anyone out there that knows how to solve this?

Thanks,

what happens if you insert it in another editor?

guess you need you OS to be russian.(people were able to use Chinese letters if i recall correctly.)

Hello,

I tried using another editor, but they all warned me that by saving with russian text, it would not be unicode. When I got in-game, it was ???????????.

This is a problem of getting it into the game, since I have tried several editors, and various ways of getting it to the screen. (reading from a text file, coping it into the code direct)

Any help? How did people who use other alphabets get gamestudio to display them?

maybe you should try what quadraxas said or even trying some different font with Cyrillics

I'm not sure if A7 still supports this, but I believe it does. Back in the A5 days, fonts were based on bitmaps with all the letters arrayed in a grid. So if you made a font bitmap, but only used cyrillic letters, then you could work with that.

It'd be like a code, A = some cyrillic letter, B = another, etc.

Here is a link to a tutorial on making font bitmaps:
http://www.ulillillia.us/gamedesign/imagefonttutorial.html