Difference between revisions of "HexText"
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== About == | |||
HexText is an LSL script to display Unicode text on 8 faced prims within Second Life. This includes the Japanes/Chinese character sets, as well as many other character sets for other languages, symbol, mathematical and box drawing. It is not all-inclusive, so there are some code pages that are missing. It does cover the majority of characters that avatars use in Unicode enhanced display names. Emojis, which are outside of the first 65,000 characters, are not included. | |||
The primary font used is Google's Noto Monospace Bold, supplemented with other open source or public domain fonts for code pages not covered by Noto. | |||
There are two display scripts. One is optimized for general usage, the other is optimized for Japanese/Chinese. | |||
== Acknowledgments == | |||
HexText uses a subset of the [[FURWARE_text]] command set. It only supports a single display set per linkset, unlike FURWARE that can handle multiple displays per linkset. HexText also does not support virtual text boxes or touch queries. | |||
HexText can use displays set up by the FURWARE display creator, however it can only use the 8 faced prim displays. | |||
== Setup == | |||
Revision as of 12:04, 2 October 2020
About
HexText is an LSL script to display Unicode text on 8 faced prims within Second Life. This includes the Japanes/Chinese character sets, as well as many other character sets for other languages, symbol, mathematical and box drawing. It is not all-inclusive, so there are some code pages that are missing. It does cover the majority of characters that avatars use in Unicode enhanced display names. Emojis, which are outside of the first 65,000 characters, are not included.
The primary font used is Google's Noto Monospace Bold, supplemented with other open source or public domain fonts for code pages not covered by Noto.
There are two display scripts. One is optimized for general usage, the other is optimized for Japanese/Chinese.
Acknowledgments
HexText uses a subset of the FURWARE_text command set. It only supports a single display set per linkset, unlike FURWARE that can handle multiple displays per linkset. HexText also does not support virtual text boxes or touch queries.
HexText can use displays set up by the FURWARE display creator, however it can only use the 8 faced prim displays.