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i wanted to experiment with Unicode in #uxn, so i wrote a little program that reads, decodes and displays each GNU Unifont glyph in the Basic Multilingual Plane, one at a time… at 60fps :3
the result is pretty mesmerising!
https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/unifont-appreciator/blob/trunk/hexdream.tal
@hikari Very very excited to see you experiment with this! I think I can learn a trick or two from your experiments that will help me localize noodle and nasu. <3
@neauoire thanks for the support! i really want to see how far i can get without, like, pulling in all of icu or the cldr, which are huge dependencies. i think supporting most european languages, plus chinese and japanese, should be quite easy, you just need a really big font. but i've followed @nasser for long enough that i can't settle for that, i have to see if i can support arabic somehow…
@neauoire has anyone experimented with dynamic libraries for uxn? since it's a von neumann architecture, it'd be super easy to just like, reserve a small part of ram for a text rendering library. that might be one way to avoid having to include specific code for all the world's languages in the text editor… perhaps you could just load the “arabic module” or the “mongolian module” or what have you?
@neauoire oh right, big caveat: supporting reading text files in european languages, chinese and japanese is easy, but being able to write text is pretty complicated. i'm not even attempting that for the time being.