This adds proper Unicode support by allowing the parse system to read
UTF-8 encoded files. The new mode is controlled by a mod option which
allows older mods to continue using the legacy text encoding.
That option changes the behavior of several systems in FSO. It disallows
the usage of Volition fonts since they don't support Unicode encoding
and changes a few usages of special characters to their unicode
counterparts of generic rendering solutions.
This fixes#1415.
Currently, the graphics code does some color remapping on 8
bit-per-pixel textures since those textures use special 4-bit pixel
values. These changes move that conversion out of the graphics code and
into the image loading/font bitmap creation code.
The reason this is needed is because this conversion breaks 8-bit
textures that try to use the full range of colors. I need to do exactly
that for moving the cutscene renderer to our generic rendering interface
which I can't do at the moment since the existing color conversion
corrupts the video data.
I have tested this with retail data and could not find any visual
changes after applying these changes.
Since Windows line endings include this character it needs to be ignored
since the text rendering would display it as an unknown character
otherwise.
This was reported by @AxemP.
This allows to use standard TrueType Fonts for text rendering in FSO. It uses the NanoVG library which provides the ability of drawing 2D shapes. This library is used for most 2D operations now and can also be used directly by using the PathRenderer class.
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