Support for complex font rendering (Chinese, Arabic, ...)
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Description
For languages like Chinese, it's not practical for an app to deliver its own font. Therefore there's a desire for libgdx to be able to use fonts delivered by the platform.
Some discussion already occurred here:
Roll-your-own Chinese font?
and here:
Development Forum: Supporting Asian fonts in BitmapFont
Earlier attempts at the same challenge have run into difficulties but there doesn't seem to be an exhaustive list of those difficulties. Perhaps that should be compiled here before attempting to develop a new plan.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reading the linked forum discussions and compiling the earlier attempts and their difficulties; done means the constraints are exhaustively documented and a viable implementation plan is established.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100