[OK]Font Groups - How to associate character points for font

[saruri]

Ref: http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#font-groups

As subject, I don't understand how do you set the start and end of a range of unicode character points for the font you want to use.

The example given is using two fonts in a group, which I don't understand their respective unicode character points set:

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init python:
     style.default.font = FontGroup().add("english.ttf", 0x0020, 0x007f).add("japanese.ttf", 0x0000, 0xffff)

Let's say if I want to add one more font to the code above, how?

Thanks in advance.

[PyTom]

You'd add another .add call. Since the first one to contain a point is the one that's used, you'd have to add it in the middle.

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init python:
     style.default.font = FontGroup().add("english.ttf", 0x0020, 0x007f).add("braille.ttf", 0x2800, 0x28ff).add("japanese.ttf", 0x0000, 0xffff)

[saruri]

You'd add another .add call. Since the first one to contain a point is the one that's used, you'd have to add it in the middle.

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init python:
     style.default.font = FontGroup().add("english.ttf", 0x0020, 0x007f).add("braille.ttf", 0x2800, 0x28ff).add("japanese.ttf", 0x0000, 0xffff)

Thank you very much for your kind reply.

I understand need to add another .add call but don't know how to set the character points for it. Like your braille.ttf, how to know its character points are "0x2800, 0x28ff"???

[PyTom]

You look them up in the code charts here:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/

[saruri]

I can't find my font in the chart......OTZ
I see some names with "Chinese" in the index but I don't understand them. Ren'Py's default font cannot be found too......

Let's just take my current case as an example. I'm now creating a game using 2 fonts: Ren'Py's default ttf (for English) and simhei.ttf (for Simplified Chinese), which both I can't find them in the chart.
Since the example given got english.ttf, I'm guessing that I can use its points for all english fonts so I'll just replace it with DejaVuSans.ttf. What about my Chinese font, simhei.ttf?

[PyTom]

If you're just using English and Chinese, you could use the ASCII range for English, and then 0x0000 to 0xffff for Chinese. (That would prevent you from using, say, Arabic characters - but that's unlikely, anyway.)

[saruri]

Ok, thank you very much, PyTom! ^ ^