- Some levels used chars < 0x20 as non-collapsible spaces, those would
now show up as [?]
- I recently found out how making characters < 0x20 6 pixels wide
doesn't work if they're missing from the font altogether
Therefore, the font now starts at 0x00 again instead of 0x20, like it
used to.
Arguably it was an advantage that the game would look extremely messed
up if you made a mistake with the fonts. In particular, a common
mistake could be to copy the new Unicode font.png, but forget to copy
the corresponding font.txt. However, 2.3 didn't come with the unicode
font, 2.4 will, so it'll be a lot less common for people to need to
manually copy the font. And if they do, it's probably for their own
level, and they have something in mind for the font, and if it doesn't
work they'll know fast enough when whatever they're planning doesn't
work (and it would only affect their own level's text, not any menus).
Courtesy of Reese. Mainly the accented characters are updated -
uppercase letters are now mostly a pixel higher to make them higher
than lowercase letters (and only a single pixel lower than uppercase
letters without accents, instead of two pixels lower). Accents for
lowercase letters have also been made thicker overall and changed in
appearance.
Also: this font image is converted to indexed grayscale instead of full
RGBA, which makes the file only 4.5 KB instead of about 10 KB.
This has a lot of characters that different languages need.
This commit is part of rewritten history of the localization branch.
The original (unsquashed) commit history can be found here:
https://github.com/Dav999-v/VVVVVV/tree/localization-orig
