Beta 4 - setting keys

[rose]

When setting the keys the Jump keys doesn't show the changes to ö and ä even if the keys does function in the program. What is showing is the US keyboards characters for those keys!!! It isn't a problem in MM1 or MM2.
It hasn't specifically to do with the jump keys. It is only that I use those special character keys for jumping keys.

Updated subject. -- Rob

[VernJensen]

Would you consider this to be an issue you could live with? I know it's not ideal, but it's mainly cosmetic.

The problem is that the game's font doesn't have special characters. We could add them, but I'm not sure how to properly link those characters with the correct keys on european keyboards.

[VernJensen]

Okay, I found this:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf

Please look at the 2nd page of this document. Which punctuation symbols should I support, and for which letters? (Each letter, A, E, I, O, U, seems to have five sets of symbols above the letter, from two dots to a ^ sign. Should I just support all of these? That would be 25 additional symbols, plus 25 more for lowercase. That's a lot of additional characters, hence why I'd like to support less if not all are necessary.)

I might at some point use the same in-game font for entering a high score, meaning any symbols you'd want to be able to enter for a name would need to be in the font I'm going to create based on your feedback.

Brell and any others reading this -- I'd love your input as well. I know very little about european keyboards or symbols.

[rose]

For me it works well to use ä and ö (for the long jumps) as they are near the shift key which on my extended keyboard I used for jumping.

[VernJensen]

What other keys on your keyboard don't show up properly in the dialog box? Can you try them all?

[rose]

å show as [
ä -> '
ö -> ;
' -> \< -> unknown
¨ -> ]
´ -> =
+ -> "
§ -> '

I haven't tested characters I need to hold down Shift to get at.

[VernJensen]

Okay, I've looked into this more, and unfortunately there is no way to fix it.. It's a problem in the library I'm using, SDL -- there is no way provided to handle unicode (i.e. international) characters.

I'll just add a note to the Options dialog that some keys may not display correctly, but will still work properly in-game.