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Can't load codepoints needed for Unicode text rendering #427
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As far as I've looked, if you want to use text with foreign characters you need to specify codepoints --the conversion codes from UTF-x to real Unicode-- in the Font object. The examples I've looked include iterating for a specific range of characters to match the language you want (for C Raylib).
// Source - https://stackoverflow.com/q/73248125
// Posted by Dmitriy, modified by community. See post 'Timeline' for change history
// Retrieved 2026-09-18, License - CC BY-SA 4.0
int codepoints[512] = { 0 };
for (int i = 0; i < 95; i++) codepoints[i] = 32 + i;
for (int i = 0; i < 255; i++) codepoints[96 + i] = 0x400 + i;
Font font = LoadFontEx("arial.ttf", 32, codepoints, 512);I've tried something similar in a project:
// codepoints
std::vector<int> codepoints;
// Load codepoints from a Unicode subset (Basic Latin)
for (int cp = 0x20; cp <= 0x7E; ++cp)
codepoints.push_back(cp);
raylib::Font font{"src/Milonga-Regular.ttf", 30, codepoints.data(),
static_cast<int>(codepoints.size())};
raylib::Text text{text_str, 30, WHITE, font};
(...)
while (!w.ShouldClose()) // Detect window close button or ESC key
{
// Update
// TODO: Update your variables here
(...)
// Draw
BeginDrawing();
ClearBackground(GetColor(gunmetalGray));
(...)
text.Draw(Vector2{20, 20});
EndDrawing();
}...but it doesn't work.
Another solution in Raylib is using GetCodepoints() for a string, but there's no bindings for that.
There's a recommended approach for raylib-cpp or...?
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