Chinese in the VSH menu does not display properly

[li-fstz]

PSP/Vita Model

PSP-3000 (Slim & Bright)

ARK Version

4.20.68 r12

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Steps to reproduce

1. Choose 简体中文 in Settings - System Settings - System Language
2. Open VSH menu

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[JoseAaronLopezGarcia]

As mentioned here: https://github.com/PSP-Archive/ARK-4/pull/300#issuecomment-2036973787

We need to create font files with chinese characters in the format that the font reader expects.

[li-fstz]

the code of drawing font is extras/menus/vshmenu/blit.c, only work for ascii (or any 8-bit encoding), so chinese cannot be read correctly in UTF-8 (japanese and korean also)

[krazynez]

the code of drawing font is extras/menus/vshmenu/blit.c, only work for ascii (or any 8-bit encoding), so chinese cannot be read correctly in UTF-8 (japanese and korean also)

should be in advancedvsh. vshmenu is the old menu we do not use. But avshmenu is very much based on that still so probably same issue applies. (More of and FYI)

[li-fstz]

the pf font only support 256 characters, it‘s unlikely to create a standard encoded chinese font

[JoseAaronLopezGarcia]

the code of drawing font is extras/menus/vshmenu/blit.c, only work for ascii (or any 8-bit encoding), so chinese cannot be read correctly in UTF-8 (japanese and korean also)

should be in advancedvsh. vshmenu is the old menu we do not use. But avshmenu is very much based on that still so probably same issue applies. (More of and FYI)

I renamed advancedvsh to vshmenu to keep it standarized with the others.

[JoseAaronLopezGarcia]

the code of drawing font is extras/menus/vshmenu/blit.c, only work for ascii (or any 8-bit encoding), so chinese cannot be read correctly in UTF-8 (japanese and korean also)

We do have the source code so we might be able to add UTF-8 support to it. Either that or maybe change to the intraFont library so we can load the native PSP fonts as we do in Custom Launcher.

[li-fstz]

makeing a couple specific encoding satelite_chs.txt and pf font maybe an acceptability idea? 256 may cover all characters in the chinese vsh menu

[JoseAaronLopezGarcia]

makeing a couple specific encoding satelite_chs.txt and pf font maybe an acceptability idea? 256 may cover all characters in the chinese vsh menu

So you mean to map ASCII characters to (common/needed) Chinese characters? We did something similar with the Greek translation in Custom Launcher. I couldn't get intraFont to display Greek characters (even though it should be able to) but I managed to overcome this by creating a special font that mapped Latin characters to Greek.

[li-fstz]

ascii cannot display chinese characters, so need a new arranged pf-font

[li-fstz]

the idea i'm talking about is more like a temporary solution, the specially satelite_chs.txt and pf-font are not convenient for updating. the solution you're talking about is more conducive to extend to other unsupported languages.

[li-fstz]

done i make a couple pf and txt, it's work

the pf look like:

[JoseAaronLopezGarcia]

Nice! Open a Pull Request and we will merge it.