International Character Sets

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‌International Character Sets

SynthEyes uses and displays UTF-8 Unicode characters on all operating systems. However, within OpenGL windows, text can only be displayed using a latin- based characters, or a language-specific set in some cases such as Hiragana (see the next section). Those windows are the Perspective View, Graph Editor, SimulTrack, and on macOS and Linux, the Splash Screen, Camera, and 3-D Views. If necessary to be printable, accents may be removed and composite characters split apart. Remaining unprintable characters will be replaced by a bullet (•).

Text drawn by the operating system can use the full Unicode character set, including buttons, dropdowns, menus, and the Hierarchy and Constrained Points views.

Note that the sort order of non-ASCII characters may not match national standards, and some features that use upper/lower case conversions (especially in Synthia) may not do so (for example, recognizing a tracker name using either upper- or lower-case non-ASCII characters). SynthEyes also must accept and display numbers using a decimal point and no number grouping character, ie 2345.67.

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