[Scripting Question] Updating Fonts to Include Unicode Characters

Marin said:

Old Ruby versions treat strings differently than nowadays. To Ruby, one byte means one character. In unicode however, a character can be longer than one single byte. These characters you mentioned are more than one byte in size, and so are represented by a certain combination of characters. But instead of drawing this combination as one character, it draws each character individually, which is why one character may show up as three characters, another as two, etc.

In newer Ruby, one character is no longer assumed to be one byte long, so they don't have this encoding issue. We don't have that luxury sadly, so we can only try to work around it.

Below is a fix by Luka, with a small addition from myself.

Code:

class String
  def bytes
    a = []
    a.each_byte { |b| a << b }
    return a
  end
end

#  Encoding fix
alias INTL_encoding _INTL
def _INTL(*args)
  string = INTL_encoding(*args)
  return string.bytes.pack('U*')
end

alias ISPRINTF_encoding _ISPRINTF
def _ISPRINTF(*args)
  string = ISPRINTF_encoding(*args)
  return string.bytes.pack('U*')
end

alias I_encoding _I
def _I(*args)
  string = I_encoding(*args)
  return string.bytes.pack('U*')
end

alias MAPINTL_encoding _MAPINTL
def _MAPINTL(*args)
  string = MAPINTL_encoding(*args)
  return string.bytes.pack('U*')
end

alias MAPISPRINTF_encoding _MAPISPRINTF
def _MAPISPRINTF(*args)
  string = MAPISPRINTF_encoding(*args)
  return string.bytes.pack('U*')
end

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Marin said:

My bad, change a.each_byte { |b| a << b } to self.each_byte { |b| a << b }

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