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Latin Extended-A + General Punctuation Unicode Blocks support

A topic by Timothée Goguely created 38 days ago Views: 65 Replies: 4
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Congratulations on this very cool project!

I just created the index.json for my blog, everything works fine, except that every non-ASCII character are displayed as a white rectangle… which is a big issue for all non-English languages.

Would it be possible to support a wider range of Unicode blocks, starting from Latin Extended-A + General Punctuation?

Looking forward to adding my blog to the Directory when it will be implemented ;)

Best

Developer (1 edit)

Hi Timothée! Thank you for your kind words!

Understandable. I’m using the font that comes with the Playdate but it’s certainly missing a lot of characters, like you say.

It’s a big undertaking to support that many characters, but I think a good place to start is by adding coverage for the characters used by the language your blog is in.

Please let me know which language that is, so I can make sure the browser can render it properly. And I’ll add more characters as I get more time.

Thank you!

Developer(+2)

Hi again! By lurking into your info I figured you needed French. So on the new 1.3.1 version, you should find support for all French characters in Normal and Bold text variations.

Please let me know if that works well!

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Cool, thank you very much for this quick patch! However, the font used for the blog’s title in the header still doesn’t have these characters.

Also, could you add the following ones (if you haven’t already)? · (U+00B7) ç (U+00E7) × (U+00D7) « (U+00AB) » (U+00BB) – (U+2013) — (U+2014) ’ (U+2019) € (U+20AC) → (U+2192) ↔ (U+2194) ↗ (U+2197) − (U+2212)

Developer(+1)

That's odd! You mean the header with the black background? It's the same font so it should be fine. If you can share at least part of your JSON, I could have a look and make sure everything is supported properly. If that's okay, you can send it to pablo@particlegs.com 

From the character list you shared, I think I might be missing:

I'll double check however if some look the same but are actually different characters. Thank you for the detailed list!