How to show Japanese letters

[Miori]

Hi!

I wanna make a kind of japanese-learning-game. But this is hard to do without writing in japanese letters. I just tried to import fonts that include japanese letters in it, but it did not work. It was just showing . So my question is: Is it possible to write japanese letters (Hiragana, Katakana as well as Kanji) somehow? :o Tasukete kudasai ^_^

[Vince Twelve]

Unfortunately, AGS doesn't support unicode fonts.  So you have to fit all the characters into the first 256 slots of a ttf font and then use some code-fu to get it all working.

Or, you can do what I did and painstakingly export an image of each piece of dialog in the game.

Note: don't do what I did.

[Miori]

That would mea,n I would not type what I want to write right? I guess I would go crazy XD
Well I already thought about the picture option, but I was hoping there is a better way ... doesn't seem so

But thanks for the answer ^_^

[Gilbert]

I've actually once made tools to display Japanese characters using translation source(and no, no Kanji included), and they're hidden in my posts in this thread. The links aren't working anymore, and it would cost me a while to look for them in my computer if someone really wants them.

[Stupot]

I started designing an AGS introduction to basic Japanese a few years ago (with a view to doing more advanced versions as I improved my own abilities), but gave up on the idea largely because of the font headache and I didn't want to resort to using romaji. It can be done to a degree (see above), but I was too lazy and too unacquainted with AGS/fonts/life to get into it.