Hakaku Posted August 17, 2009 Report Posted August 17, 2009 A lot of modern games and applications are starting to realize the importance of internationalization. Although SubSpace's main market was initially the United States, the game attracted people from all over the world. However, the limitation to basic ANSI characters and a unilingual client and server has hindered its potential growth, and basically limited it to those who have some knowledge of English. As it stands, Starlight, STF, and possibly Chatnut are the first clients to support Unicode, while Continuum and Subchat2 have basic ANSI support. Discretion is currently the only client that only handles strict ASCII, with an American-only keyboard mapping (i.e. it doesn't recognize the character, it only seems to recognize the place of the character on the keyboard). I know it's no easy task, but would it be possible for Discretion to support:1. Unicode2. Actual fonts (rather than being restricted only to an ascii bitmap layout)3. Languages (i.e. Allow seperate language files to override default client messages; possibly even have the client send the language to the server as well)
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