Fonts do not support international characters

[branan]

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[Deledrius]

It looks like we can use Freetype (already used in the plFontConverter tool) to do more advanced font rendering live, or Pango if we want to offload layout as well.

Ideas?

[branan]

I've done some stuff with Freetype and harfbuz - I think Pango is too heavy a library to pull in just for text layout.

[Deledrius]

Ah, HarfBuzz was the other one I was trying to remember, but the name escaped me. It looks good from the description, but the docs seem non-existent. Can it build in MSVC?

[branan]

It ought to. It's used as the backend layout engine for both Pango and Qt. The docs don't exist, but the headers are fairly self-documenting.

[Hoikas]

Should this be closed as of #1409? The fonts themselves are still lacking, but we now have the ability to re-export the p2fs with an improved character set, making this more of an asset problem than an engine problem.

[dpogue]

I think we can close this as far as the P2F files go, with further discussion taking place in issues like #1490