[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #12623: TRECISION: œ (o+e ligature) missing from French subtitles

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#12623: TRECISION: œ (o+e ligature) missing from French subtitles
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Reporter:  Kurufinwe21  |       Owner:  Kurufinwe21
    Type:  defect       |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal       |   Component:  Engine: Trecision
 Version:               |  Resolution:
Keywords:               |        Game:  Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
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Comment (by Kurufinwe21):

 I don't feel strongly either way about the shadows. As I was touching up
 the Œ, I just noticed that that was how the shadows seemed to work for the
 three letters I was looking at (u, f and s). I haven't done a
 comprehensive survey of the rest of the alphabet.

 Going through my screenshots now, it seems like that the shadows work as I
 said ''except'' for a few cases. I'm attaching a screenshot with another
 line of text. You can see that the shadows are always adjacent to the
 yellow pixels, except on one character: à. But that character looks weird:
 the shape of the a isn't even consistent with the unaccented letter!

 This bug's original screenshot displays the same thing: every letter uses
 the same logic for the shadows (just adjacent pixels), except for the Ç,
 which also has them in diagonal.

 If I had to venture a guess, I'd say Trecision started with a font that
 only had the ASCII characters. Then they (or whoever was in charge of the
 translations) added the non-ASCII characters by hand (forgetting œ and Œ
 in the process), but they did it a bit carelessly and added shadows
 without trying to exactly match the logic used in the original font.

 Anyway, I don't think anyone will pay attention to the shadows (I
 certainly wouldn't have if I hadn't blown up the picture to touch up the
 Œ), and I'm not advocating that anyone try to fix all the non-ASCII
 characters in the game. But since œ and Œ are getting added, might as well
 make them consistent with the "correct" part of the font, I guess?

 If you want to discuss this some more, you can reach me at (my-user-name-
 here)-at-yahoo-dot-com, though I don't think I have much more to say about
 it all.
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