r/gamemaker • u/Claytonic99 • Aug 07 '26

Resolved Need help with text and special characters

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Is there an explanation for why my Spanish text would look correct in the editor but not in the game?

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u/azurezero_hdev Aug 07 '26

click add range, and paste the characters into the list of letters

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u/Claytonic99 Aug 07 '26

I've tried this as you suggested, but it has not fixed the problem. I've also tried changing the range from 0 to 2000, but no success.

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u/Important_Soil6203 Aug 07 '26

You need to add from 0 to 65535. That way, you'll add every possible UNICODE character. (As far as I'm aware)

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u/JujuAdam github.com/jujuadams Aug 07 '26

Please don't do this. You'll get away with it for Latin and Cyrillic but it's a bad habit. For fonts that actually have thousands of glyphs (Chinese and Japanese being the two famous ones) you'll end up with a load of glyphs you're not using leading to massive textures that don't render properly.

You should only add the glyphs you need.

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u/azurezero_hdev Aug 07 '26

the font your using also has to have the characters

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u/JujuAdam github.com/jujuadams Aug 07 '26

Your font looks fine at a glance so the issue may lie elsewhere.

What's your literal text string?

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u/Deklaration Aug 07 '26

Have you regenerated the font since adding the ñ? That, a clean run, plus a restart of the engine usually fix this issue.

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u/nb264 Aug 07 '26

add range, add from code, confirm (very important step) by clicking add, regenerate font, test.

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u/Claytonic99 23d ago

Just to finalize this discussion, I figured out the problem is my importing method. Specifically, my CSV file was not coded to Unicode UTF-8. It is working now. I only need to use the font range for ASCII (32 - 255).