As promised, a technical write-up about the knowledge-journey I went on to implement Japanese Unicode support in my software-rendered retro game engine.
There's a lot of juicy bits here about Unicode, string parsing, localization strategies, and more! Enjoy!
https://blog.brianna.town/japanese-font-support
#gamedev #indiedev #japanese #retrocomputing #unicode #gaming #pixelart
@eniko I put together a snippet for the code that parses my little scripting language that I showed off here: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@britown/112736650843336944
Snippet: https://git.brianna.town/-/snippets/3
An accept function checks the current cursor for a condition, returns t/f, and if it is true, moves the cursor forward to the next character. Every accept function uses a collection of accepts defined before it.
So for an EBNF there's a 1:1 relationship between the grammar terms and accept() functions.
Attached: 1 image Sure ok let's hook up a code editor with custom syntax highlighting so we can write these scripts easily with error checking and auto-completion BalazsJako's ImGuiColorTextEdit is an older widget but it checks out #gamedev
Brianna Townsend
Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)