As promised, a technical write-up about the knowledge-journey I went on to implement Japanese Unicode support in my software-rendered retro game engine.
There's a lot of juicy bits here about Unicode, string parsing, localization strategies, and more! Enjoy!
https://blog.brianna.town/japanese-font-support
#gamedev #indiedev #japanese #retrocomputing #unicode #gaming #pixelart
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