Enhancement: Rework the Alphabet class

[EliteMasterEric]

There are many improvements that can be made to the custom text element class.

• Refactor the whole class (it's kind of a spaghetti pile right now).
• Add the capability to select between different spritesheets.
• Refurbish the existing spritesheet (create a brand new spritesheet to replace the old one, move bold to a separate sheet).
• Add support for numbers and important symbols in bold text.
• Add support for diacritics (in both languages)
• Use Unicode to split and appropriately parse text with diacritics.
• Properly render diacritics

[isakube]

• Refactor the whole class (it's kind of a spaghetti pile right now).

Loosely based off FlxTypeText LOOOOOL

• Add the capability to select between different spritesheets.

Oh cool. pass a font parameter on creation and pick the sprites from there

• Refurbish the existing spritesheet (create a brand new spritesheet to replace the old one, move bold to a separate sheet).

Okay

• Add support for numbers and important symbols in bold text.

Yes

• Add support for diacritics (in both languages)

Yep

• Use Unicode to split and appropriately parse text with diacritics.

uhh

• Properly render diacritics

ok

[EliteMasterEric]

The Unicode splitting one essentially means to logically split up symbols like é into an e and a ` symbol. Then when rendering it, move the symbol back one character, resulting in a composite symbol.

Basically I don't want to require some special substitution code to render a Unicode character, instead it should "just work".

Also:

• Add support for flag icons maybe?

[isakube]

The Unicode splitting one essentially means to logically split up symbols like é into an e and a ` symbol. Then when rendering it, move the symbol back one character, resulting in a composite symbol.

Basically I don't want to require some special substitution code to render a Unicode character, instead it should "just work".

ok

• Add support for flag icons maybe?

yes