{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues/2311","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues/2311/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues/2311/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues/2311/events","html_url":"https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/issues/2311","id":106000445,"number":2311,"title":"Is it a good idea to render with freetype?","user":{"login":"Benau","id":3252341,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3252341?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau","html_url":"https://github.com/Benau","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Benau/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":40,"created_at":"2015-09-11T12:28:29Z","updated_at":"2015-10-19T23:30:29Z","closed_at":"2015-10-19T23:30:29Z","body":"Hi!\r\n\r\nI recently updated the chinese translations (both version), I want to test so I tried to regenerate the fonts, unfortunately some problems come out.\r\n\r\nThe font tool doesn't work on linux,it can't auto remove unneeded chars (chinese for example), but it's easy to fix. But the generated fonts are too large (~10 pics), I tried to load but Korean was display corruptly, why can't stk just load specific lang xml file? I see some related code comment out in scalable_font.cpp.\r\n\r\n*Note, I don't know if it's a problem with my linux font tool.\r\n\r\nAnyway, instead of using font png, I tried something more ambitious -- try using libfreetype instead. \r\n\r\nSome advantages gained is that it enables better font display with cyrillic like #2121, or even font selection support(does stk need?), if not too useless typing wildchar in stk input prompt support too.\r\n\r\nAlso no more font addition is needed for each translation update when the code is ready.\r\n\r\nDo devs from stk like this idea? I can do further work on it if you like.\r\n"}}