[SOLVED]Text Editor with Japanese Text Support

[Ekamu]

Does anyone here know any text editor with Japanese text support?

If I write this in Notepad++
love.graphics.newImageFont("resources/font2.png"," あいうえおかきくけこさしすせそたちつてとなにぬねのはひふへほまみむめもやゆよらりるれろわをん"
.."がぎぐげござじずぜぞだぢづでどばびぶべぼぱぴぷぺぽ"..'0123456789.,""!?()_/-+:;\\<>'),
I get this
love.graphics.newImageFont("resources/font2.png"," ??????????????????????????????????????????????"
.."?????????????????????????"..'0123456789.,""!?()_/-+:;\\<>'),

(Or does it still store the Unicode even-though it displays ???????)

If any of you are using any free text editor with Japanese text support then could you please post a download link for me. Or even better if their is a way to display Japanese kana in Notepad++.

Thanks

[markgo]

Most text editors use the available fonts on your system. If you want Japanese text support, you'll need to download the appropriate font much like LOVE. Even though your text editor shows incorrect characters, it will show up correctly when you have the right font. Also, make sure to enable the correct encoding for your files (e.g. UTF8, ANSI) for proper display.

[Ekamu]

Here's another free font. Its originally from Mother (Earthbound Zero) but I messed it up and made it thicker.

font3.png (3.16 KiB) Viewed 10414 times

[Ekamu]

EDIT:
It displays font within the Notepad++ text editor but I cannot run my game with LOVE. When I drag and drop it into the LOVE.exe or create a .love file and run that nothing happens. No errors the game just does not start up at all.

I am using UTF-8 encoding for all modules.

Here is the lovefile: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qijoko85hm9mf ... rv0.8.love

[ejmr]

Does anyone here know any text editor with Japanese text support?

GNU Emacs has built-in support for typing in Japanese, but I think using it just for that is overkill. BabelPad was an editor I used years ago on Windows; sorry I don’t have a link on hand, but if that’s still out there then that is a good one for working with Unicode in general.

But it really shouldn’t matter what editor you are using if you have the Input-Method Editor setup fine (I’m assuming you’re using Windows). You still need a font that has the characters, e.g. Arial Unicode, but the editor itself shouldn’t affect things.

[Boolsheet]

I want to make sure you've seen the note on the [wiki]love.graphics.newImageFont[/wiki] wiki page. The encoding issue will be fixed in 0.9.0.

If LÖVE closes on you before it displaying anything, it's possible that an error happened before a window was created. You can redirect the standard output, where LÖVE writes the errors messages to, to a file so you actually see it. Open a terminal or command prompt and execute LÖVE like this.

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path/to/love path/to/game > stdout.txt

This will create a file stdout.txt in the working directory and write everything to it.

An example for Windows.

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"C:\Program Files\LOVE\love.exe" D:\mygame\mygame.love > D:\mygame\stdout.txt

[Ekamu]

unexpected symbol near 'ï' in function <[string "boot.lua"]:227.

LÖVE expects ISO 8859-1 encoding for the glyphs string.

Wikipedia
(ISO/IEC 8859-1 :is the basis for most popular 8-bit character sets, including Windows-1252 and the first block of characters in Unicode.)

the first block of characters in Unicode?

Does this mean I cant use UTF-8 encoding with LOVE0.8. I assume Japanese font is outside the first block of characters in Unicode?

[slime]

Does this mean I cant use UTF-8 encoding with LOVE0.8. I assume Japanese font is outside the first block of characters in Unicode?

That restriction only applies to ImageFont strings in 0.8.0. You can use a TrueType font (.ttf file) and it should work fine, or you can use 0.9.0.

[bekey]

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[Ekamu]

O.K now I'm getting decoding error not enough space.I am using ttf fonts.
Encoding is in UTF-8 without BOM

Maybe I should use GNU Emacs/Babblepad. but I also think its unnecessary. The same problem might persist anyway.