If anyone has questions or comments about my plugin, EditorFont, you may comment below and I will do my best to answer or discuss.
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Are there any plans to support localized languages other than English?
I am Japanese and sometimes use Japanese localized characters, so if you don’t mind, please consider it!
SO! I tried using this japanese font i found on google, and set my font to it using my plugin.
All english letters will be changed by the font but still show as english, as my system is set to that language. even in windows, the .ttf file shows as an english font. However, when i use this multilingual keyboard and put some japanese text in there it does show up properly. I dont quite know what it would be like on a japanese native system, but it looks to me like it works just fine without needing to make any changes.
Try the plugin out and see how it works for you! I tested it in 5.5.2, so i dont know if it works in earlier versions.
The font of the language used in the editor is not adapted font when changing the language settings of the editor as shown in the image
Hey! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Sorry it didn’t work out of the box for you.
I looked into the code a little bit, and it turns out that when you switch the localization to some languages, it uses a different font file that supports cross-language unicode fonts. Most still use the regular ones i believe.
Thankfully, it seems like it probably wont be too hard to make my plugin support altering this different localization font file.
Unfortunately, it would require me to rewrite a lot of my code, and knowing my perfectionist streak would take longer than necessary.
Until such time as I can get my plugin up and running for this, you’ll have to make do with altering the fonts yourself. It’s rather simple!
- Get your desired OTF fonts. TTF fonts dont work for the japanese language style it seems. There are free websites that will do a conversion for you.
- Locate the directory at: “YourEngine\Engine\Content\Editor\Slate\Fonts”
- Copy this folder to another safe location you can remember, just in case you need to undo your changes.
- Rename your fonts to match exactly the name of the font you want to change. THIS IS CRUCIAL! It must be the exact same name and extension.
- Replace the font in that directory with your new, and renamed, font.
- Restart the engine, or click the Update Fonts button in my plugin, which should still work properly.
And thats about it. According to the source code, the fonts that the japanese style uses are the “GenEiGothicPro” set. I think the log still uses the normal Mono font, so you can still use my plugin to set that.
This is an image of me using a font called RampartOne-Regular instead of the default Regular font for japanese, and switching my localization to Japan.
I hope to have my updated plugin out soon, but im rather busy with other stuff as well and may not have time. If you have any further questions, feel free!
Thank you very much!
I will be making changes in the way you have taught me for the time being.
Please keep up the good work on the development, even if it is slow!
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Ill do my best! thanks for checking out my plugin. having people use it is quite enjoyable. ill update this thread when i push out those changes
Good news! Updates to my plugin are live.
I’ve added some non-english alphabet languages including Japanese, and localized the sample text for those languages so that they show properly even on an english machine.
I’ve added a font converter, that allows you to make .ttf fonts into .otf fonts and vice versa.
Some quality of life updates.
Go back to the fab page and download the new version. There’s also a youtube video I made showing how some of the features work, which you can find in the description.
Make sure you get the new Defaults folder from the updated plugin. you may have to manually uninstall the old plugin, and then install the new one. im not sure.
I hope you enjoy it!
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Thank you!
I was able to use it without any problems!
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