Handling Chinese characters within a list of English text

[thirstyoctopus]

Hi everyone

I've been working on my screens for my game, specifically the Credits screen, where I am listing all the Kickstarter backers who have pledged to help my project come to life. However, one backer has entered a Chinese name in characters that Renpy is unable to display and I believe it's most likely due to the font face. However, I cannot change the font for the entire project as it is tied in with my logo and general brand, so I wondered if there was a way to assign a specific, generic foreign face font to that one particular name in the credits? Here is a snippet from the credits screen (example with Chinese characters):

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...
text _("Some guy")
text _("马哲聪")
text _("Another guy")
...

What I want seems like it wouldn't even be possible? Failing that I am able to translate the name via Google Translate but I'm not sure they would want it to display like that since I already asked everyone how they want their names to appear...

Any ideas?

[Imperf3kt]

You can use the font text tag.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.htm ... t-tag-font

[thirstyoctopus]

Great, thank you!

[rames44]

Also, a nit - you probably do NOT want those strings inside a _t() macro, since they probably shouldn’t be translated (being names, not text)

[Imperf3kt]

Also, a nit - you probably do NOT want those strings inside a _t() macro, since they probably shouldn’t be translated (being names, not text)

Nice catch!

Best to just put in a string
text "Chinese name"