Hiragana fonts?

[Knightess]

I've been wondering for a while now why there are no Japanese
Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji fonts.

I was just wondering if we could get them put into graal. It would be cool because other languages have their characters,
So why not Japanese?

[xXziroXx]

I support this suggestion!

[Crono]

Can we have Persian alphabets too?

I was just wondering if we could get them put into graal. It would be cool because other languages have their characters,
So why not Persian?

[Knightess]

Originally Posted by Crono

Can we have Persian alphabets too?

I was just wondering if we could get them put into graal. It would be cool because other languages have their characters,
So why not Persian?

I see what you did there

[Draenin]

For Windows users, you need the language pack to even display those characters and write with them to begin with. I don't see this happening. I've done transcription before, and it would take a lot for Graal to properly use non-roman characters.

[knightfire35]

Originally Posted by Knightess

I see what you did there

Wow, we have a genius here.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Draenin

For Windows users, you need the language pack to even display those characters and write with them to begin with. I don't see this happening. I've done transcription before, and it would take a lot for Graal to properly use non-roman characters.

I doubt many players would use it, though it would be an interesting feature to simply have the fonts. Typing with it would still have nothing to do with graal, that would be dependent on the IME the user has.

It's not just fonts, as in you can't press "a" and expect it to come out as "あ"

So you only need the fonts really I believe.

[Googi]

Originally Posted by Knightess

I've been wondering for a while now why there are no Japanese
Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji fonts.

Because only the probably <10% of users with the East Asian Language Pack installed would be able to see them.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Googi

Because only the probably <10 of users with the East Asian Language Pack installed would be able to see them.

But if it was included with graal, it would be installed alongside of it :P

[Draenin]

Just install a font for that on your own system and use it. It's not necessary to include fonts for kana when you're not even going to be able to use them properly to begin with.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Draenin

Just install a font for that on your own system and use it. It's not necessary to include fonts for kana when you're not even going to be able to use them properly to begin with.

You need the fonts to see them... -.-;
And you can't just use it, thus the reason for the feature request.

[Googi]

Originally Posted by Clockwork

But if it was included with graal, it would be installed alongside of it :P

And bloat Graal's size for something hardly anybody is going to use.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by Googi

And bloat Graal's size for something hardly anybody is going to use.

I don't think it would be that big only a couple MB ? おにがいGoogiちゃん？

[knightfire35]

Originally Posted by Clockwork

I don't think it would be that big only a couple MB ? おにがいGoogiちゃん？

I don't think that's the point. Not many people would use it, thus making it not needed. If every request is just a couple MB, those MB's add up.
Save it for a feature everyone can use.

[Clockwork]

Originally Posted by knightfire35

I don't think that's the point. Not many people would use it, thus making it not needed. If every request is just a couple MB, those MB's add up.
Save it for a feature everyone can use.

Mb's don't really add up when you get ~1 update a year.