Different languages in Paint Editor.

Rem889

Hello Scratch.
My suggestion is to add more language support to the paint editor.
I mean, whenever I use the paint editor and click the “Text Tool” I can type in English.
However, when I type in some other language, like Russian, it won't type.

Auroura_Wolf

Sorry, I'm sure the Scratch Team would add this if they could, but since they don't own the fonts, they can't do anything D: it's annoying, but the fonts only support Latin characters and we have to just deal with it (maybe it will get fixed with Scratch 3.0?

Rem889

Auroura_Wolf wrote:
Sorry, I'm sure the Scratch Team would add this if they could, but since they don't own the fonts, they can't do anything D: it's annoying, but the fonts only support Latin characters and we have to just deal with it (maybe it will get fixed with Scratch 3.0?

Aw, that sucks…
Well we can only hope.

Last edited by Rem889 (Aug. 21, 2017 11:00:10)

Auroura_Wolf

Rem889 wrote:
Auroura_Wolf wrote:
Sorry, I'm sure the Scratch Team would add this if they could, but since they don't own the fonts, they can't do anything D: it's annoying, but the fonts only support Latin characters and we have to just deal with it (maybe it will get fixed with Scratch 3.0?
Aw, that sucks…
Well we can only hope.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that

I guess you can report this to be closed if you're satisfied with that answer, or you can leave it open and see what other people have to say

Rem889

Auroura_Wolf wrote:
Rem889 wrote:
Auroura_Wolf wrote:
Sorry, I'm sure the Scratch Team would add this if they could, but since they don't own the fonts, they can't do anything D: it's annoying, but the fonts only support Latin characters and we have to just deal with it (maybe it will get fixed with Scratch 3.0?
Aw, that sucks…
Well we can only hope.
Yeah, I'm sorry about that I guess you can report this to be closed if you're satisfied with that answer, or you can leave it open and see what other people have to say

I'll leave it open to see what other Scratchers think. Thanks for help

Randomness-TV

I just add . . dots for .. like that.
u
But since its Russian u can use lines andstuff. No Support.

Last edited by Randomness-TV (Aug. 21, 2017 11:03:35)

Rem889

Randomness-TV wrote:
I just add . . dots for .. like that.
u
But since its Russian u can use lines andstuff. No Support.

I know but the main characters in the alphabet at least.

CBPS

I can type in different languages in the paint editor

I think that whether or not you can depends on the fonts you have on your computer.

Auroura_Wolf

Randomness-TV wrote:
I just add . . dots for .. like that.
u
But since its Russian u can use lines andstuff. No Support.

That's probably not right, and either way they are talking about languages in general. Sure you can use dots for an umlaut, but what about Chinese characters? They have to be hand-drawn. Also, I don't know why you would just no support with such a weak argument for it… At least give it a semi-support

Rem889

CBPS wrote:
I can type in different languages in the paint editor I think that whether or not you can depends on the fonts you have on your computer.

I don't think Scratch uses the fonts which are on your computer, there's only Helvetica, Marker, Mystery, Gloria, Donegal and Scratch.
What foreign language can you type in?

CBPS

Rem889 wrote:
CBPS wrote:
I can type in different languages in the paint editor I think that whether or not you can depends on the fonts you have on your computer.
I don't think Scratch uses the fonts which are on your computer, there's only Helvetica, Marker, Mystery, Gloria, Donegal and Scratch.
What foreign language can you type in?

Haven't tried them all to be honest, but I do remember typing in Russian.

Auroura_Wolf

CBPS wrote:
I can type in different languages in the paint editor I think that whether or not you can depends on the fonts you have on your computer.

Can you type in Japenese, Chinese, Russian or any other language that doesn't use the Latin alphabet? Don't bother, the answer is no, you can't. So yeah, it has nothing to so with the fonts you have on your computer, because this is talking about in the Scratch editor

Rem889

CBPS wrote:
Rem889 wrote:
CBPS wrote:
I can type in different languages in the paint editor I think that whether or not you can depends on the fonts you have on your computer.
I don't think Scratch uses the fonts which are on your computer, there's only Helvetica, Marker, Mystery, Gloria, Donegal and Scratch.
What foreign language can you type in?
Haven't tried them all to be honest, but I do remember typing in Russian.

But when I tried Russian it didn't type anything…
And it's Scratch 2.0, not 1.4.

Rem889

Auroura_Wolf wrote:
CBPS wrote:
I can type in different languages in the paint editor I think that whether or not you can depends on the fonts you have on your computer.
Can you type in Japenese, Chinese, Russian or any other language that doesn't use the Latin alphabet? Don't bother, the answer is no, you can't. So yeah, it has nothing to so with the fonts you have on your computer, because this is talking about in the Scratch editor

Man, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Serbian use the Cyrillic alphabet.

CBPS

It used to work, but only with a certain font.

I think that a recent update broke it or something.

Rem889

CBPS wrote:
It used to work, but only with a certain font. I think that a recent update broke it or something.

That may be real…

CBPS

stickfiregames wrote:
There is a bug in that Helvetica shows the wrong characters for code points 128 to 255, and with that it is possible to type Cyrillic characters

CBPS

CBPS wrote:
stickfiregames wrote:
There is a bug in that Helvetica shows the wrong characters for code points 128 to 255, and with that it is possible to type Cyrillic characters

That was May 30. But the bug can been fixed.

Rem889

CBPS wrote:
stickfiregames wrote:
There is a bug in that Helvetica shows the wrong characters for code points 128 to 255, and with that it is possible to type Cyrillic characters

Hmm, interesting.

Auroura_Wolf

Rem889 wrote:
CBPS wrote:
It used to work, but only with a certain font. I think that a recent update broke it or something.
That may be real…

It isn't; you're remembering wrong. The fonts just don't support non-Latin characters, like I say. And if I'm wrong then… well, I'll be really surprised

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