Re: [pygame] rendering wide unicode characters?

[Anthony Baxter <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aha. I decided to hunt through the unicode charset to figure out what 
was going on. The character I was passing was unicode char U+1D11E, 
but the character that is being rendered is U+D11E. Trying a few more 
characters above 2**16, it seems like the SDL_ttf code is truncating 
the number to a short. I checked, the pygame code is passing the 
correct utf-8 to the SDL code. 

Looking further, the SDL_ttf code looks like it's got a lot of UInt16 
everywhere. I think that the problem is pretty clearly in SDL_ttf.

Does anyone know the correct way to log a bug against SDL_ttf? At the 
very least, if it's going to truncate the characters available to 
2^16, it should refuse to render characters with a higher value. 
Better yet, of course, would be to actually fix it. The underlying 
freetype2 code handles it fine, it seems. 

Anthony