Because it supports Unicode, like every modern program should.
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Unicode support in your coding language is great right up until someone accidentally inserts a lookalike character or closing quotation mark somewhere (phone keyboards and accessibility tools do this a lot). The code will look correct but fail to compile, and it can be a nightmare to debug if you don't know to look for it.
Any half decent compiler can find this
And any half decent ide will highlight these characters as well
Ea-Nāsir about to start a shovelware game studio
Copper smelting simulator 2026-BCE
I would so play this. Most sim games don't track quality of produced goods.
Same. I like my sims to be about half spreadsheet. There really aren't many options for a trading sim with extreme detail.
Can't wait to read all those steam reviews
Why was this written‽ All game engines support unicode.
Because pcgamer has discovered they can rewrite social media posts into articles that drive ad revenue.
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Not necessarily. They might internally encode strings as Unicode, but that doesn't mean they'll have full support for multi-grapheme glyphs, right-to-left (or top-to-bottom) text order, combination characters, or a host of other features that aren't needed when rendering English text.
It took a lot of work to make Godot compliant.
o i c, ðy wr incompliant b4, & ð news was ðy finally achievd unicode orienta ʃ compliance. 🙇♀️ 4 explaiŋ.
A lot of code aint, even lemmy & pylova
I prefer vertical langs myself.
lmk if u need an index of the abbreviations used above
They've technically been compliant since Godot 4 came out in 2023, but they've continued to update their i8n and l10n (internationalization and localization) support with every subsequent release. And since the Godot editor runs on the Godot game engine, developers benefit from these changes too.
From what I hear they're one of the nicer engines to work with when it comes to translations now - Godot has added lots of usability and testing tools, including in the UI design layer so developers can verify the localized versions are working and look right from the earliest stages of development onward.
I prefer vertical langs myself.
I wonder if users of vertical languages prefer portrait screen orientation to landscape?
I wonder if users of vertical languages prefer portrait screen orientation to landscape?
Legit don't matter.
But I hope u read ð rest of 🧵, ’cʌ exactly usŋ multiple langs ʃn’t break orientaʃs. Evn if must, it ʃ gracefully fallback t ð dominant skirpt, if not, v orientaʃ marks as u type.
I’m still angry Unicode took out VTM.
I read it! I know most of the characters you use, and the remainder were easy enough to figure out through context. :)
What was VTM? Search is not being helpful today.
Prior to 2014, Unicode had a «Vertical Text Mark», ðt let ð text renderer know ↓ skript needs t b vert.. Ðy removd completly, lettŋ us standardless. I preferrd keepŋ it, as ðy hypocritically allowd horizontal BiDi marks.
Finally, the KKKaskians are repelled from the digital gamedev front!
The didn't yet have the concept of 0, so it's not historically accurate
we can include it, itncounts as zero loanwords in their number system
Finally!
Gozer the Gozerian's form has been chosen.
Ah yes, that's the only thing that was stopping me so far 🤣
the ultimate killer feature
I've been waiting for this!
How much of this is a Snowcrash reference?
This Godot thing--is it a game engine, a drug, or a religion?
It's actually a type of HPV.
It's happening!
For code obfuscation purposes, I presume?
BS, you can just open the files on a editor that doesn't support every unicode feature/disables unicode and it will look like (almost) normal text so the purpose is not obfuscation, which, Godot, an open source engine has no interest in doing that anyway
It was a joke, but my bad for not making that clear.
Fair, it's just that lately on lemmy- everywhere in general tbh, i see people saying stuff like that unironically