How can I make Japanese Characters work in Game (SOLVED)

[Rafa]

In the Editor I write the Japenese correctly,

But when Launching the Game to verify, they don't show correctly.

What do I have to do to correct this problem?


Thank you very much for your consideration on this problem.

[Ivlivs]

That's an easy problem to solve.

Make sure you have a free font that supports Japanese. For more information on supporting Japanese in your game, see:
http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/coo ... d_Japanese

Also, when naming a character in Japanese, put a "u" before the quoted part; write the name as u"いもうと" rather than "いもうと".

Here is an example of what I am talking about:

Hope this helps.

[Rafa]

Thank you very much for the information!

Why is the reason for the u"いもうと" rather than "いもうと" ? technically speaking.

what is renpy.input() ? because it says "(The one issue being that renpy.input() is not supported for non-English languages, and especially not for ones that require input method support.)"

[PyTom]

The u introduces a unicode string, which is how we represent Japanese. (Or really, any non-English text.)

[func]renpy.input[func] lets you prompt the user to enter a string, like his name. Since Japanese text input is really hard, we don't support it.

[Rafa]

Thank you very much Pytom

Is there a way to make the game has 2 start games in the Main Menu to start in 2 different labels?

Like Start Game Male and Start Game Female. to start in two different starts, without making 2 different games?

I have an idea for a funny little game if started different.

Thank you again for your consideration on helping.

[PyTom]

Yes, this can be done using config.main_menu

[017Bluefield]

So, how much of this applies to Ren'Py 7.00? I've gotten the same issue, but I'm not sure how to proceed with it...