Win1250-font.png - for Windows-1250 or CP-1250 code page. It represent texts in Central European and Eastern European languages that use Latin script, such as Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian (Latin script), Romanian and Albanian. It may also be used with the German language; German-language texts encoded with Windows-1250 and Windows-1252 are identical.


Win1251-font.png - for Windows-1251 or CP-1251 code page. It used for languages that use the Cyrillic script such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic and other languages. It is the most widely used for encoding the Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian languages.


Win1252-font.png - for Windows-1252 or CP-1252 code page. It is the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows in English and some other Western languages.


Win1254-font.png - for Windows-1254 or CP-1254 code page. It used for Turkish language.

Here the link to the Photoshop PSD files with templates:

SE 0.97 font textures

You can open it in the Photoshop or GIMP and edit bottom half of the texture to add characters of your language. All characters made in a separate text layers, so you may just select the text edit tool and click on the character to edit it. Make sure you put the characters in the right places according to your national Windows code table. It is possible however to put characters anywhere in the texture and configure them in the font configuration script. But you should not change the digital, English, Greek and special characters sections of the texture, otherwise you will have incorrect characters for Greek letters and astronomical symbols in SpaceEngine. After editing, save the texture in the grayscale PNG format. You may use any format supported by SE though, but PNG is optimal for font textures.

The font configuration file is the text file with this structure (you may copy the win1251.cfg and rename it):



It consists 3 digital tables - FontCharsParams, CodeTable and RegisterTable. The first table is used to describe horizontal offsets and widths of each character in the texture. So there two numbers for each character. You need change the bottom half of this table, which corresponds to bottom half of the font texture. To simplify it, enable the grid in the Photoshop or GIMP and set its cells to 16x16 pixels, so each cell will contain one character.

For example, lets look on the letter í in the win1252-font.png:



It is placed in the row №14 and in the column №13 (numbers are starting from zero). So find the two digits in the row №14 column №13 of the FontCharsParams table (the numbers are typed in the comments to facilitate):

0 4

The first number is the number of pixels from the left side of the cell to the character (enable the 16x16 grid in the Photoshop/GIMP). In this texture all characters are aligned to left, so this offset is 0. The next number is the width of the character in pixels. The letter í is a narrow, only 3 pixels wide. You should add one extra pixel to separate characters from each other in the text string, so width of this letter should be considered as 4. So its parameters are

0 4

Another example - letter Õ (row 13, col 5). It is wide, its parameters are:

0 10

The most wide character is the symbol of infinity, it takes two cells (this is possible), and its parameters are

0 18

The next table is the CodeTable - the table to map the keyboard (Unicode) codes into the font texture characters codes. If you use the code page 1252, no code table needed. Otherwise use the Unicode chart to find you character code (note that in this Wikipedia article the codes are in the hexadecimal format, you need to convert them to decimal - you can use Windows calculator for this). For example, lets look in the win1251-font.cfg:



Each row of the table corresponds to one character. The first is the Russian letter 'A', it have Unicode code 1040 and a number in the texture of 192. Number in the texture is the (number or row) * 16 + (number of column), numbers are started from 0, so 'A' have the number 12 * 16 + 0 = 192. Next letter have a number 193, next 194 etc.

The next table is the RegisterTable - the table to map a capital letters to small letters. You must fill this table for all characters expect default ones (digits, English letters, Greek letters and special SE symbols). If you did not fill this table, the search by name function in SE will not work correctly. For example, lets look in the win1251-font.cfg:



Each row of the table corresponds to a Capital-Small character pair. The first number is a code (ie number in the texture, the same as in CodeTable table) of the Capital character, the second is a code of corresponding Small character.

[ SUP ] text [ /SUP ] - upper index ^text

[ SUB ] text [ /SUB ] - lower index _text

[ SMALL ] text [ /SMALL ] - samll font text

[ BIG ] text [ /BIG ] - big font text

[ HUGE ] text [ /HUGE ] - huge font text

[ COLOR=FA05C7 ] text [/COLOR] - change color (in Hex format, like in HTML) text

[ TAB ] - tabulation

Also SE supports abbreviations for Greek letters and some useful characters, that are represented in the font texture:

[ALF] - α (Alpha)
[BET] - β (Beta)
[GAM] - γ (Gamma)
[DEL] - δ (Delta)
[EPS] - ε (Epsilon)
[ZET] - ζ (Zeta)
[ETA] - η (Eta)
[TET] - θ (Teta)
[IOT] - ι (Iotta)
[KAP] - κ (Kappa)
[LAM] - λ (Lambda)
[MU] - μ (Mu)
[NU] - ν (Nu)
[KSI] - ξ (Ksi)
[OMI] - ο (Omicron)
[PI] - π (Pi)
[RHO] - ρ (Rho)
[SIG] - σ (Sigma)
[TAU] - τ (Tau)
[UPS] - υ (Upsilon)
[PHI] - φ (Phi)
[CHI] - χ (Chi)
[PSI] - ψ (Psi)
[OME] - ω (Omega)

[DEG] - ° (degrees)
[ADEG] - ° (degrees)
[AMIN] - ' (angular minutes)
[ASEC] - " (angular seconds)
[ASECD] - ". (angular seconds with dot)
[YEAR] - ^y (years)
[DAY] - ^d (days)
[HOUR] - ^h (hours)
[MIN] - ^m (minutes)
[SEC] - ^s (seconds)
[MIND] - ^m. (minutes with dot)
[SECD] - ^s. (seconds with dot)
[MAG] - ^m (magnitude)
[MAGD] - ^m. (magnitude with dot)
[INF] - ∞ (infinity)
[SUN] - ☉ (Sun sybmol)
[EARTH] - ⊕ (Earth symbol)
[JUP] - ♃ (Jupiter symbol)
[MOON] - ☾ (Moon symbol)