[Solved]SDL_TTF and ™

[RandomDever]

It's not rendering for me. Why?

[dandymcgee]

It probably doesn't support that character. Just draw a really small T and M.

[superLED]

Or make an image of ™ and render that image as a symbol.
Only if you really can't find another way.

[bbguimaraes]

Not being very helpful, but two othings I guess could be the problem are wrong encoding or your font doesn't have that character. But I don't know the library. Have you checked the documentation? Does it draw something (the dreaded square)?

[RandomDever]

It draws the square and I'm pretty sure arial has a ™ character.
I've done the 'drawing a really small t and m' before but the point is to use legitimate font rendering.
Because this is for my engine and I would rather not have to do this every time I want to draw the ­™ character.
Same thing with using an image.
And I've been through the documentation and tried all 3 encoding options.

[dandymcgee]

I've done the 'drawing a really small t and m' before but the point is to use legitimate font rendering.

The point should be to make it look like a TM to the user.

Because this is for my engine and I would rather not have to do this every time I want to draw the ­™ character.

That what functions are for.

Assuming you've read this?

[RandomDever]

Yes I have read that and the copyright and registered trademark symbols work for me as well.
But seeing as I have not yet designed (much less registered) a trademark I would need a ™ which actually (confusingly) means unregistered trademark.

[dandymcgee]

But seeing as I have not yet designed (much less registered) a trademark I would need a ™

The point was obviously not to use a different symbol... but to apply the same method to the symbol you are trying to render. You're spending far too much time on something that literally makes no difference at all to you users. They would be just as happy with (TM).

[RandomDever]

It makes a difference to me.

[dandymcgee]

It makes a difference to me.

Did you try printing the symbol using the method demonstrated in that article??

[RandomDever]

Yes. I'll just use (TM). Marking as solved.