displaying japonese text on libnds???

[Deleted member 591971]

is it even possible in the first place???

 

[RocketRobz]

You can, but not via "printf" or similar functions.

For future questions, please post in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-noob-paradise-ask-questions-here.528133/

 

[Deleted member 591971]

You can, but not via "printf" or similar functions.

For future questions, please post in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/ds-i-noob-paradise-ask-questions-here.528133/

how do i print text then? my best guess is by using backgrounds or sprites but that is way too ineficcient.

the reason why i did not post this question on the "noob" paradise is because i feel like it just isn't a noob question but yeah thanks for the advise.

 

[RocketRobz]

how do i print text then? my best guess is by using backgrounds or sprites but that is way too ineficcient.

There are libraries which can do so, such as NightFoxLib.

 

[Pk11]

You could take a look at how other homebrew that support Japanese do it, such as TWiLight Menu++ or GodMode9i, both are based on the same code but GodMode9i was fairly heavily modified to A) automatically align to a grid and B) use GodMode9's FRF instead of NFTR.

Their code is GPL3 and the font code is relatively portable (I use it as a basis for most of my apps, like Wordle DS) and is fairly competent, it even supports BIDI text for languages like Hebrew and Arabic.

It is also possible to do a very limited version of Japanese with just the normal printf, using a custom font such as this, you can print the characters above ASCII fine, such as in this Example:


https://gist.github.com/Epicpkmn11/c7fe962bc04ad385a9761d6cc945939c