I have now a variant of ioquake3 that renders OpenGL Unicode fonts with FTGL library:
http://www.www0.org/w/Optimized_executable;_builds_of_ioq3_engine_for_urt It's mainly used to render Google Translation output of chat. It's partly work in progress but it's at an operational state here. It has no console input/output support of Unicode since I was mostly dealing with a closed mod. It appears (according to discussion here) that would need server/client support and potentially game support. Sidenotes: Google translation runs on a new thread with a 'multi' of cURL to re-use connections and hence minimize both CPU and networking resources. A previous version was only on cURL 'easies' spawning a thread each but that was not reusing connections. A 'multi' can also work without threads relatively block-free, but not completely block-free, hence I made a hybrid of the two. It's not easy to make something on ioquake3 thread safe. e.g. Whenever i want to print something from it I completely avoid Com_Printf (since it's massively thread unsafe recursively) and only write on a mutex protected 'to print' variable. I had previously used pthreads but then went to SDL threads, mutexes and semaphores to save having to deal with an extra library and because pthreads doesn't seem that much supported on Windows. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list ioquake3@lists.ioquake.org http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
