[Feature Request] Add more available symbols and characters.

[Yekaterina]

Languages that don't use Latin or Cyrilic or Greek Alphabet fail to display correctly. Currently, there are already many language pack mods, can we implement them into public? That would save many players a lot of hassles, especially people who can't read English. Furthermore, some people would like to talk in their own language but the lobby does not allow it. The most common ones: Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Korean. 

Currently Chinese has a fully ready modpack to be implemented that has been tested and is compatible with multiplayer. Installiing this mod will allow most Chinese characters to display correctly. We can consider failing to display these characters a bug, so we can do it during feature freeze

In addition, can we add more possible characters to people's usernames? Would be fun to allow letters like ü,  chars like !"£$%^&*()+=\|/

as well as Greek and Cyrilic letters. logging into the lobby via a third party like Gajim allows the user to change their name to anything, so it should be technically achievable. 

 

[causative]

Wоuld аlѕо аllоw ѕрооfіng реорlе'ѕ nісknаmеѕ wіth сhаrасtеrѕ thаt lооk the same as Lаtіn сhаrасtеrѕ but аrеn't the same. The preceding sentence is full of such characters but you'd never know from looking.

[Yekaterina]

2 minutes ago, causative said:

Wоuld аlѕо аllоw ѕрооfіng реорlе'ѕ nісknаmеѕ wіth сhаrасtеrѕ thаt lооk the same as Lаtіn сhаrасtеrѕ but аrеn't the same. The preceding sentence is full of such characters but you'd never know from looking.

what's wrong with that?

 

[sarcoma]

it has been used before to troll and become unbannable

[Yekaterina]

1 hour ago, sarcoma said:

it has been used before to troll and become unbannable

ok in that case can we just add in some character that are distinct from what we already have, for example the Cyrilic and Greek alphabet

[vladislavbelov]

13 hours ago, Sevda said:

Currently, there are already many language pack mods, can we implement them into public?

There are plans to fix the font rendering problem. I've already added the freetype library. The next step is to add font pre-rendering in the game (via freetype directly or via cairo/pango).

13 hours ago, Sevda said:

In addition, can we add more possible characters to people's usernames? Would be fun to allow letters like ü,  chars like !"£$%^&*()+=\|/

I think it's a reasonable restriction, as well as for emails one. You can use the player name option if you want to customize the name.