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Added Scandinavian and German glyphs#30

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Added Scandinavian and German glyphs#30
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@kaj-se kaj-se commented Feb 9, 2026

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  • Added glyphs for full support of Scandinavian and German letters
  Char UniCode SFDName
  ------------------------
  Ä    U+00C4  "Adieresis"
  Å    U+00C5  "Aring"
  Æ    U+00C6  "AE"
  Ö    U+00D6  "Odieresis"
  Ø    U+00D8  "Oslash"
  Ü    U+00DC  "Udieresis"
  ß    U+00DF  "germandbls"
  à    U+00E0  "agrave"
  ä    U+00E4  "adieresis"
  å    U+00E5  "aring"
  æ    U+00E6  "ae"
  é    U+00E9  "eacute"
  ö    U+00F6  "odieresis"
  ø    U+00F8  "oslash"
  ü    U+00FC  "udieresis"

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  Char UniCode SFDName
  ------------------------
  à    U+00E0  "agrave"
  é    U+00E9  "eacute"

Removed from changes (by request):

  • Added <FontLog> to track changes made by contributors~
  • Added <Comment> in <StartChar><EndChar> to easily track who created which glyph
  • Added myself to the copyright in <Copyright> and <LangName>
  • Updated from version 1.00 to 1.1 in <Version> and <LangName>

- Added myself to the copyright in `<Copyright>` and `<LangName>`
- Updated from version 1.00 to 1.1 in <Version> and `<LangName>`
- Added `<Comment>` in `<StartChar><EndChar>` to easily track who created which glyph
- Added `<FontLog>` to track changes made by contributors
- Added glyphs for full support of Scandinavian and German letters
```
  Char UniCode SFDName
  ------------------------
  Ä    U+00C4  "Adieresis"
  Å    U+00C5  "Aring"
  Æ    U+00C6  "AE"
  Ö    U+00D6  "Odieresis"
  Ø    U+00D8  "Oslash"
  Ü    U+00DC  "Udieresis"
  ß    U+00DF  "germandbls"
  à    U+00E0  "agrave"
  ä    U+00E4  "adieresis"
  å    U+00E5  "aring"
  æ    U+00E6  "ae"
  é    U+00E9  "eacute"
  ö    U+00F6  "odieresis"
  ø    U+00F8  "oslash"
  ü    U+00FC  "udieresis"
 ```
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hmdunce commented Feb 9, 2026

I had chatgpt generate Swedish-, German-, and Norwegian-eqsue "lorum ipsum" texts with lots of special characters, then followed the same test procedure as described here and took a bunch of screenshots with gui.size from like -3-6 (and at the end I skipped to 10.)

The grid looked fine throughout -- after I replaced chatgpt's dang smart quotes with normal ones:

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hmdunce commented Feb 9, 2026

Side note typing also seems to work (at least on Linux) with one extra tweak to client:

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kaj-se commented Feb 10, 2026

Hej @hmdunce, the random sentences are crazy funny to be honest.
You forgot the à and é, examples for that would be:

é:
Names: Sandén, Norén, Rosén, Löfvén, Rabén, Franzén, ...
Words: armé, filé, idé, béchamelsås, gelé, déjà vu, cyberkafé (very important), entrédörr, allé, ...

à:
Phrases: à jour, à la, à la carte, à pris/à-pris, déjà vu, folie à deux, ...
Sentence: Tre hundra säckar à två dussin betor -> "Three hundred sacks of two dozen beets each"

The à is also used in German the same way for saying "of ... each"

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hmdunce commented Feb 10, 2026

Side note, I was just curious what un-"squished" capital letters with diacritics would've looked like... Here's one test, where I copied "A" exactly and stuck an umlaut on top:

image

Vs current glyphs in this PR:

image

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kaj-se commented Feb 10, 2026

Side note, I was just curious what un-"squished" capital letters with diacritics would've looked like... Here's one test, where I copied "A" exactly and stuck an umlaut on top:

image Vs current glyphs in this PR: image

I have opened a new issue for this problem -> #31
This should prevent such issues from occurring in the future. The issue affects the upper and lower sections. If you place elements lower then the parts of the glyphs j or g, it will also overlap.

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Thanks for submitting this change!

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kaj-se commented Feb 10, 2026

@hmdunce the Å is even more "squished", that's the trade of by sticking to the current font line spacing. My idea was to change it so you can use the full height, but sean sad it's on purpose, so we have to do it like that.

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kaj-se commented Feb 18, 2026

@seanmakesgames Pull Request is ready to be merged.

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