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As promised, a technical write-up about the knowledge-journey I went on to implement Japanese Unicode support in my software-rendered retro game engine.There's a lot of juicy bits here about Unicode, string parsing, localization strategies, and more! Enjoy!https://blog.brianna.town/japanese-font-support#gamedev #indiedev #japanese #retrocomputing #unicode #gaming #pixelart

Was thinking about what it would take to allow Japanese characters in the EGA-like framebuffer and fell down a deep deep hole of adding the 8x8 misaki font and then writing code to convert Unicode codepoints to JIS X 0208 2-byte kuten coordinates. Need to write up a full blog post about what all went into this but here's the final product in all its glory! Special thanks to @nicegeargames for translating my save file deletion dialog (minus the buttons which I googled )#gamedev

salt in the wound: an assert would've stopped this whole charade but in the place where the assert should be was a comment // should probably assert here?